Tag: Settlers
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Aqraba inhabitants facing confiscation of yet more farmland to serve the expansion of an illegal settlement
9 September 2010 | ISM Media Aqraba, NABLUS On Monday 6th September, farmers in Aqraba were forbidden by the Israeli army to work on a 200 dunam area of land near the village. The land is currently in the process of being converted, by a combination of local workers and the Union of Agricultural Work…
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One hundred settlers gather to violate construction freeze; Israeli soldiers threaten besieged Palestinian family
2 September 2010 | ISM Media Baqa’a valley, HEBRON Last night (1 Sept. 2010) around 150 to 175 Israeli settlers, many armed, constructed an illegal outpost at a new location in the Baqa’a valley, east of Hebron, and attempted to harass a Palestinian family. The Israeli army did not attempt to disperse the settler gathering…
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Israeli academics boycott West Bank settlements
31 August 2010 | BBC News More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In a letter, they said they supported the recent decision by a group of actors and others not to take part in cultural activity there. The academics said that…