Tag: Settlers
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Beit Ommar harvests despite Israeli threats
15 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On June 14th 2011 a Beit Ommar farmer reported that he was “ordered” to leave his farm land by an armed security guard from the adjacent Karmei Tzur settlement. The guard apparently used a dog to drive the farmer and his family from the land. Settlers had also recently…
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Popular Committee leader of Ni’lin arrested and two protesters injured by live ammo in Deir Qaddis
15 June 2011 | Ni’lin Two Protesters Injured with Live Ammunition and one arrested in Deir Qaddis Demonstrators disrupted construction of a new neighborhood in the adjacent settlement of Nili. Israeli soldiers responded with baton charges, tear-gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition. One organizer was arrested and several olive trees were burned down. Two…
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Armed settlers harass the villagers of Qusra, a village south east of Nablus in the West Bank
14 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Saturday June 11, six or seven armed settlers accompanied by the Israeli military entered the Palestinian village of Qusra and harassed villagers. Before they escaped they threw stones at a village truck smashing the side glass and cracking the windscreen. At approximately 5.00pm, the Imam of the…