Tag Archives: Settlers

24 December 2009 Ryan Olander is due to be deported by the Israeli state, after being illegally arrested and detained in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in Occupied East Jerusalem. Please contact the Embassy of the United States in ...

23 December 2009 Residents of Qusra witnessed a Caterpillar bulldozer, flanked by 20 Israeli military jeeps, entering the village at 7am on Wednesday, 23 December. Israeli Occupation Forces quickly occupied the entire village, establishing three checkpoints at its entrances and ...

23 December 2009 On Wednesday 23 December at 11.30pm, as every other night, settlers began to circulate in the street between the occupied Gawi house and the half-occupied al-Kurd house in Sheikh Jarrah. After about an hour of general harassment ...

23 December 2009 “Merry Christmas to all the Christians and Happy New Year,” Nasser Gawi after his first Christmas tree decoration. On Wednesday, 23 December, residents of Sheikh Jarrah organised a Christmas celebration outside the occupied homes of the Gawi ...

21 December 2009 Another settler attack on a family in Sheikh Jarrah on Monday 21 December leaves the family with two broken windows and fear of future attacks. After dark on Monday 21 December 2009 a group of around 40 ...

21 December 2009 Imprisoned American citizen and Minnesota resident Ryan Olander to be deported to the US after being arrested in Sheikh Jarrah, Occupied East Jerusalem, whilst visiting Palestinian family whose house has been taken over by Israeli settlers. Ryan ...

Adalah-NY 19 December 2009 For immediate release: New York, NY, December 19, 2009 – On a snowy Saturday afternoon, forty-five human rights carolers serenaded Madison Avenue shoppers with familiar holiday tunes outside the storefront of Israeli diamond and settlement mogul ...

ISM London 19 December 2009 Ahava, an Israeli beauty product company that operates on stolen Palestinian land, was the target of protest on Saturday by approximately 20 pro-Palestine activists. With Dead Sea mud covering their faces and dressed in bath ...

Jimmy Carter | The Guardian 19 December 2009 It is generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse to join in renewed peace talks ...

18 December 2009 For immediate release: A peaceful demonstration of around 300 people, held in solidarity with the evicted Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, was violently dispersed by the Israeli police. Following a violent dispersal of ...