Tag: Settlers
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Palestinian farmers and internationals prevented from working their land by Israeli army
15th May 2009 On the morning of the 15th, a group of international and Israelis helped the al-Jabari family to clear their lands in readiness for planting a new crop. The al-Jabari family’s land is located between the two illegal Israeli settlements of Kiryat Arba and Giv’at HaAvot in the Hebron district of the southern…
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Norwegian MP: If investment in occupation acceptable, we must revise ethics guidelines
Ma’an News Agency 15 May 2009 A Norwegian ethics committee is due to travel to Israel and the West Bank in two weeks to assess the investment of the world’s largest government pension fund, The Norwegian Government Pension Fund, in Africa Israel Investments. In advance of that visit, a delegation of seven members of the…
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Israeli forces kidnap 2 farmers in Qalqiliya region
11 May 2009 At 7 am Sunday morning, May 10, 2009, two farmers from Izbaht Tabib, Jaefar Tabib, 23, and Naem Tayayhe, 30, were arrested as they went out to work their land. They remain in custody. In the evening of the same day, a bus with about 60 settlers, accompanied by the Israeli army,…