Tag: Settlers
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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…
