Tag: Settlers

  • Burin: Youth football surrounded by monuments to Israeli occupation

    Burin: Youth football surrounded by monuments to Israeli occupation

    by Ben Lorber 12 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 7th of December, a windy Wednesday morning behind the boys’ school in the Palestinian village of Burin, 15 teenagers, dressed in red uniform, took to the football field under the coach’s whistle. As the team began its warm-up exercises, another youth…

  • No miracle yesterday in Nabi Saleh: Mustafa Tamimi murdered

    No miracle yesterday in Nabi Saleh: Mustafa Tamimi murdered

    by Linah Alsaafin 10 December 2011 | The Electronic Intifada “Ambulance! Ambulance!” So far, there were three people who had suffocated from the tear gas, and three people injured by rubber bullets. I saw gas, and so assumed that it was another case of suffocation. But the cries got louder, urgent, desperate — quite unlike…

  • Critically injured Mustafa Tamimi of Nabi Saleh dies of his wounds

    Critically injured Mustafa Tamimi of Nabi Saleh dies of his wounds

    9 December 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Mustafa Tamimi, who was fatally injured yesterday during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh passed away earlier today. Tamimi was hit in the face by a tear–gas projectile shot directly at him, from only a few feet away. Mustafa Tamimi, a 28 year…