Tag: Settler violence
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Burin: Zionist soldiers and colonists collaborate against harvesting
by Alistair George 17 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Israeli military conducted arrests, mistreated detainees and continued to prevent villagers from picking olives in certain areas of Burin, near Nablus, yesterday on October 16 2011. International activists have been prevented by the military from attending olive harvests during the past two…
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Israeli military “superiors” interfere in Burin’s olive harvest
by Alistair George 12 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Israeli military ordered villagers to stop picking olives on their own land in Burin, near Nablus, today. The soldiers refused to give a reason for suspending the harvest. “It is nothing to do with us, we just get orders from our superiors,” they…
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In Photos: Ad Dhahariya and Shuwika plant resistance
11 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At 1 PM a demonstration went from the solidarity tent assembled for the prisoners strike in Ad Dhahariya to the nearby village of Shuwika to plant trees. The demonstration was a solidarity action with the prisoners and also a protest against recent settler assaults in Shuweika…
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Extremist settler attacks shepherd and brutally abuses flock
28 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 17th of September Israeli colonists attacked a shepherd near Sha’ab el-Butom, resulting in several sheep injured and the arrest of the young shepherd. Sha’ab el-Butom is a small Bedouin village in South Hebron Hills not even mentioned in most maps, a village that faces daily…
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Israeli military conceals information about possible nerve agent used by illegal, violent settlers
26 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Sunday, September 25th, Riyadh Abu Armile was assaulted by settlers and the army in Hebron,causing for an open investigation by human rights groups as evidence suggests that settlers may have used an unidentified nerve agent during the assault. On the night of the attack hundreds…