Tag: Settlers
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I’m sorry we never knew each other
29th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, occupied Palestine This is a the personal thoughts of an ISMer, remembering the execution of Hummam Adnan al-Saeed and Islam Rafiq Hammad Ibeido, on 27th and 28th October 2015. Israeli forces gunned down the two Palestinian men right in front of the ISM-apartment. The only thing…
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Settlers attack boy’s school, Israeli army traps students
26th October 2016 | ISM & IWPS | Urif, occupied Palestine Last Tuesday both the IWPS team and ISM team were harvesting olives in separate areas when we received a phone call telling us that there had been trouble with settlers from the illegal settlement Yitzhar and Israeli occupation forces near the high school for…
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Kafr Qaddum: Peaceful people under violent occupation
25th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Last Friday I attended a demonstration in the small town of Kafr Qaddum, situated in the Northern region of the West Bank, just west of the city of Nablus. In 1974 Israel began to illegally erect settlements in the nearby Keddumin area.…
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Protective Presence at Burin olive harvest
24th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus-team | Burin, occupied Palestine Today, international activists joined members of the Najjar family from the village of Burin to harvest their olives and provide a protective presence should settler colonists or Israeli forces attempt to attack and disrupt the harvesting. Thankfully, there were no violent incidents todayand the…
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Settler attacks school-children and orders soldier to assist her
24th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On Monday morning, infamous Israeli settler Anat Cohen attacked a group of school-children harvesting olives near their school in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). She then ordered the soldier to not only evict the students and teachers from the area, but assist in her…
