Tag: Settler violence

  • Eight children from Beit Ummar facing suspension from their village of residence

    by Satu 26 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Eight children between the ages of 14 to 17 years old were arrested in Beit Ummar during night raids from 6th to 11th of March conducted by the Israeli occupation forces following a nonviolent solidarity demonstration for the hungerstriker Khader Adnan on the 21st…

  • A family’s nightmare: Beaten and kidnapped by illegal settlers near Qadumim as Israeli military facilitates the crime

    A family’s nightmare: Beaten and kidnapped by illegal settlers near Qadumim as Israeli military facilitates the crime

    by Jonas Weber 23 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A family of four was kidnapped by settlers on Thursday afternoon while having a picnic close by an outpost near Qadumim. When soldiers arrived at the scene they chased away the relatives of the kidnapped family with tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets alongside settlers throwing…

  • Video: Illegal settlers in Al Khalil attack Palestinian student

    by Satu 19 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Sunday 18th of March, an 18-year old Palestinian student, Mustafa Abu Salime, got attacked by settlers between Checkpoints 56 and Gilbert. Mustafa passed the Gilbert checkpoint on his way to visit his friends. He saw three settlers talking to a soldier. Few meters down…

  • Settlers Attack Child in Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Al-Khalil

    Settlers Attack Child in Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Al-Khalil

    by Joshua 17 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Saturday, March 17 2012, illegal settlers in Al-Khalil (Hebron), guarded by Israeli Occupation Forces soldiers, trespassed onto the private property of the Abu Ayesha family and proceeded to attack fifteen year old Said, striking him on his arms.  The settlers refused to begin…

  • Mapping a pattern of Israeli violence in Burin

    Mapping a pattern of Israeli violence in Burin

    13 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The pattern of settler and military invasion of Burin, a village near Nablus, is what locals and internationals are mapping to brace themselves for more property damage, violence, and threats by nearby illegal settlements and hardcore adherents to the volatile “Price Tag Campaign.” If the pattern…