Tag: Settlers

  • 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…

  • Activists from across Europe gather to build the campaign against Agrexco

    9 June 2011 | Stephanie Westbrook This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign…

  • Second settler arson attack on Madama in a week

    3 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Thursday June 2 at about 1pm, the villagers of Madama were again victims of a settler arson attack on their land. According to Samed Hamad, a 15 year old Palestinian who saw the incident, settlers from the nearby illegal settlement Yizhar, set fire to a crop Field…