Tag: Settlers

  • Hebron: “We have been waiting over 60 years for this”

    21 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Atta and Rudaina Jeber’s farm is situated upon a hill. The area is called Sheik Sherah, in the Beca’a Valley in the outskirts of Hebron, or Al-Khalil.  Atta’s family has owned the land since the Ottoman Empire was in power, and he explains that he…

  • “Holy water” in Qusra attracts violent settlers

    18 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank While farming their land in the village of Qusra, 50 year old Fathalla and his three sons were attacked by a group of armed settlers on the morning of September 16th. The attack came amid recent increase of settler violence in anticipation of the UN vote…

  • Settlers burn ISM tent in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah

    14 September 2011 | The Alternative Information Center At about 2am on Monday, 11 September, settlers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah burnt to the ground an International Solidarity Movement tent that had been established to monitor and prevent settler violence in the neighborhood. The tent, which thankfully was empty at the time…