Tag: Settlers
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Settler guard murders Palestinian in East Jerusalem; police fire gas at his funeral
23 September 2010 | ISM Media On the morning of Tuesday 22 September a privately-hired Israeli settler security guard shot and killed a Palestinian man in the neighbourhood of Silwan in Palestinian East Jerusalem (Al-Quds). The killed man, Samer Sarhan, was aged 32 and had five children. Eyewitnesses say the shooting followed a verbal disagreement…
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Two Silwan residents shot dead by settlement guards
22 September 2010 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan Update: only one man was killed in Silwan. More people were injured but not killed by gunshots. Massive army presence as clashes continue in Baten el-Hawa, next to Beit Yonathan settlement. Very early this morning in Silwan Village, a patrol of private armed guards stopped…
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Israeli police accused of targeting Jerusalem’s Arab residents
11 September 2010 | The Independent A leading civil-rights group has accused Israeli police of systematic discrimination against the Arab residents of East Jerusalem as growing numbers of hardline religious Jews take up residence in Palestinian areas. A report from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Acri) found that violent confrontations between Jewish residents…
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A ghost town beckons? Old City in Hebron under threat
10 September 2010 | ISM Media During the month of Ramadan the Israeli army used various tactics to repress protest and intimidate the population of the Old City in Hebron, which illegal Israeli settlers are seeking to ethnically cleanse When, on August 10th 2010, the Israeli Army invaded the Old City in Hebron and closed…
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Aqraba inhabitants facing confiscation of yet more farmland to serve the expansion of an illegal settlement
9 September 2010 | ISM Media Aqraba, NABLUS On Monday 6th September, farmers in Aqraba were forbidden by the Israeli army to work on a 200 dunam area of land near the village. The land is currently in the process of being converted, by a combination of local workers and the Union of Agricultural Work…