Tag: Settlers

  • Evicted Palestinians sleep rough in protest

    Jacky Rowland | Al Jazeera 7 August 2009 The Hanouns, a Palestinian family evicted by Israeli authorities from their home in East Jerusalem, are protesting their eviction by sleeping on the street outside the house that was for decades their home. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem…

  • Backed by their army, settlers bid for expansion in three locations

    Ma’an News 8 August 2009 Israeli settlers launched a series of actions on Friday in a bid to take over more West Bank land from Palestinians. In the city of Hebron settlers began planting Palestinian-owned land under military guard in an apparent takeover attempt. Settlers from the illegal Israeli colony of Kiryat Arba moved on…

  • Sheikh Jarrah: another day sleeping under the sky

    Alternative Information Center 6 August 2009 The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, housing about 500 Palestinians in East Jerusalem is under siege. Armed forces have been stationed here since early Sunday morning when the Hannoun and Gawi families were forcibly evicted from their homes by as many as 500 police officers. Now it’s a waiting game.…