Tag: Settlers

  • Militant Jewish settlers set up 11 outposts in the occupied West Bank

    Rachel Shabi | The Guardian 28 July 2009 Israeli settler groups have set up 11 new outposts in the occupied West Bank, in a direct rebuttal of mounting US calls to freeze settlement activity. Young Jewish groups are reported to have set up the structures – mostly tents and huts on hilltops – in the…

  • Protest over Sheikh Jarrah house continues

    Abe Selig | The Jerusalem Post 27 July 2009 A woman was arrested in east Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on Monday evening, after a scuffle broke out between police and foreign left-wing activists who were protesting the entry of Jews into a nearby home the previous day. The house is the subject of a legal…

  • Sheikh Jarrah demonstrates against settler takeover and demolition

    27 July 2009 At 4pm today Sheikh Jarrah demonstrated against the Israeli settler takeover and partial demolition of the Darwish Hijazi home yesterday. The day began with a meeting held in Sheikh Jarrah’s Um Kamal protest tent, which has become a powerful symbol of Palestinian steadfastness in face of the Israeli ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem,…

  • Settlers take over a Palestinian house in Sheikh Jarrah

    Israeli Coalition Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) 27 July 2009 On July 26th a group of settlers led by Arie king took over a Palestinian house in Sheikh Jarrah to which they where given custody of in a very controversial decision of the Israeli court. While trying to prevent the settlers from taking over the house…

  • U.S. warns Israel: Don’t build up West Bank corridor

    Aluf Benn | Ha’aretz 24 July 2009 The U.S. administration has issued a stiff warning to Israel not to build in the area known as E-1, which lies between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim. Any change in the status quo in E-1 would be “extremely damaging,” even “corrosive,” the message said.…