Nir Hasson | Haaretz 11 December 2009 Six Israel Police officers were lightly wounded and 21 left-wing activists were arrested Friday during a demonstration that turned violent in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem. The demonstrators were protesting the eviction ...
Read More »Israeli forces disrupt UNRWA chief’s farewell
Ma’an News 10 December 2009 Israeli police ordered outgoing UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd to leave an East Jerusalem home on Thursday during her last official visit as the head of the relief agency. Ma’an’s reporter on the scene said AbuZayd ...
Read More »Israeli police pepper-spray 13-year old Palestinian boy in Sheikh Jarrah, arrest twenty four
11 December 2009 On Friday 11 December 2009, the fourth demonstration march against evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem arrived in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. The demonstration takes place every Friday, and gathers Israeli, Palestinian, and international ...
Read More »Settlers occupying al-Kurd house in Sheikh Jarrah continue to harass evicted Palestinian families
8 December 2009 Settlers, who have since August 2009 taken over three houses in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem, have, after a series of violent attacks, initiated a number of actions this week with the ...
Read More »The US cash behind extremist settlers
Andrew Kadi and Aaron Levitt | guardian.co.uk 8 December 2009 The Hebron Fund is raising vast sums for Israeli settlements that violate the Geneva convention, with little scrutiny Last month, a Brooklyn-based non-profit organisation called the Hebron Fund, which supports ...
Read More »A portrait of nonviolent resistance in one Palestinian village
Ellen Cantarow | Huffington Post 8 December 2009 At no time since its 1967 West Bank occupation have Israel’s seizures of Palestinian land and water resources seemed as shocking as the ones attending its construction of “the wall,” begun in ...
Read More »Settlers from Yitzhar burn Palestinian family’s house and cars near Nablus
6 December 2009 In the village ‘Einabus south of Nablus, three settlers caused severe damage to Palestinian property, setting a Palestinian house and several cars on fire in the early hours of Sunday, 6 December. In total two tractors were ...
Read More »Letter to family and friends: Bir el-Eid, West Bank
I have now been in the village of Bir el-Eid for three weeks. This has been a great time of connecting with the people here, helping with chores with the sheep, going out in the hills with the sheep, and ...
Read More »Increased settler attacks on villages around Nablus followed by army invasions including the use of live ammunition
4 December 2009 Settler attacks have increased across the Nablus region this week, as residents of Yitzhar settlement target the villages of Burin and Asira al-Qabliya. Israeli Occupation Forces have aided and abetted settlers, terrorising the villages with the use ...
Read More »Shock follows footage of settler running over Palestinian
Ma’an News 3 December 2009 An amateur video shocked Palestinians on Tuesday, catching what appeared to be an Israeli settler repeatedly running over a wounded Palestinian at a gas station in Hebron last week. The Palestinian, an unidentified man shot ...
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