Tag: Settler violence

  • Palestinian woman seriously injured in settlers’ attack

    11 April 2012 | The Palestinian Information Center AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A Palestinian woman was hospitalized with serious injuries in her head after a group of Jewish settlers attacked her near Yatta village, south of Al-Khalil. An eyewitness said that 40-year-old Samiha Nawaja was attacked by a group of masked Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement…

  • Voices from the Occupation: Izat J. – settler/soldier violence/detention

    Voices from the Occupation: Izat J. – settler/soldier violence/detention

    11 April 2012 | Defence for Children International Name: Izat J. Date of Incident: 10 March 2012 Age: 16 Location: Hebron, occupied West Bank Nature of Incident: Settler/soldier violence/detention On 10 March 2012, a 16-year-old boy from Hebron is attacked by an Israeli border policeman and then detained at Kiryat Arba’s police station after his…

  • Fadi Abu Zeitoun, killed as settlers attacked farmers

    Fadi Abu Zeitoun, killed as settlers attacked farmers

    by Rana H. 9 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Israeli settlers attacked and chased a group of Palestinian farmers last Thursday, causing a tractor to flip over during the chase, causing the death of the Palestinian driver. On Thursday, April 5th, armed settlers from the illegal Israeli colony of Itamar attacked a…

  • Settlers occupy Palestinian house in Al Khalil

    Settlers occupy Palestinian house in Al Khalil

    by Paige and Mira 31 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Early Thursday morning approximately fifteen to twenty settlers occupied the house of the  Abu Rajab family on Shuhada street near the Qeitun checkopint in Al Khalil (Hebron). The settlers entered the house under the protection of the Israeli army and border police…

  • Settlers attack internationals accompanying school children on Shuhada Street

    by Paige 28 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Today at around 1 PM  extremist settler Anat Cohen attacked a Canadian woman accompanying school children, and a few minutes later sent two teenage settlers to throw rocks at the Canadian woman and a Finnish man.  The attack occurred at the bottom of the…