Tag: Settlers
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Hebron: Israeli settlers occupy Palestinian home
By Sunny 30 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Wednesday, May 23, a group of Israeli settlers forcefully occupied the home of a Palestinian family near the illegal Tel Rumeida colony in the Palestinian city of Hebron. In an incident that lasted 3 hours, settlers forced their way into the house and…
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Urif: Israeli settlers attack village, Palestinian shot in abdomen
By Tete Tele 26 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On May 26, the village of Urif, south of Nablus, was attacked by Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement. Extensive amounts of agricultural land belonging to Urif were burned and settlers threw stones and shot live ammunition at civilians from the village.…
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Two Palestinians arrested as Israeli settlers forcefully enter their property
By Alex Sweden 28 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday, May 25, illegal Israeli settlers drove into the village Lubban ash-Sharqiya where they attempted to forcefully enter a family’s home. When Israeli soldiers and policemen arrived at the scene they joined the settlers, supporting’ them whilst they tried to enter the…
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Bethlehem: 18 year old Palestinian stabbed
By Richard Frank and Dan Stingy 27 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank 18 year old Saleh al-Zoghayer, who was recently stabbed by Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem, has been at the centre of the media recently. Several contradicting and false reports surfaced along with a shocking photograph of Saleh following the stabbing. On…
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Occupied Palestine: farce, tragedy, travesty
By Patrick Keddie 20 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The three snapshots below are composed from interviews conducted whilst working for the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank from September to December 2011. FARCE Rodni Jaber is a Palestinian woman who lives and works as a farmer in Al-Baqa’a, a windswept…