Tag: Settler violence
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Settler Violence: Broken Glass on Shuhada Street
by Silvia 21 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Five years ago Abed Seder’s wife, Kefah, was shot five times in the chest by Israeli soldiers as she went onto her roof to check her water tank. She was 23 years old and left three sons motherless. He tells me his sons are…
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61 year old released from hospital after Yitzhar settler attack
by Fransisco Reeves 15 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Following her horrific ordeal of having her family’s vehicle attacked by Zionist settlers in early February, Maysar Abd Al Majeed Ghanem is finally healthy enough to return to home. The attack resulted in Ghanem spending 36 hours in the Intensive Care Unit and…
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Al Ma’asara: House on the seam of looming Apartheid Wall becomes center for peaceful resistance
by Aaron 14 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank There is a place where a ground-level concrete line runs beside a country road through olive orchards, grape vines, blossoming almond trees, and homes—all Palestinian. This is the projected path of a new segment of Israeli Apartheid Wall through Al-Ma’sara, a small village 13…
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“It’s Hevron. It’s very dangerous” warn occupation forces in Al Buwayra
by Pascaline 12 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Sunday 12 February, about 200 settlers, mainly youth, gathered at the bottom of Assima settlement in Al Buwayra to cultivate and steal Palestinian land with accompaniment by the Israeli military. They were carrying Israeli flags and posters. The military opened a gate leading…
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Kufr Qaddoum: Cut off road and electricity does not deter demonstrations
by Jonas Weber 10 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Villagers and internationals assembled in Kufr Qaddoum after prayer time to demonstrate against the blocking of their main road to Nablus. The army cut off the electricity in the entire village as collective punishment for the ongoing demonstrations in Kufr Qaddoum. The villagers,…
