Tag Archives: Settlers

Christian Peacemaker Team 18 April 2009 On 18 April Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills reported that Israeli settlers had destroyed a large privately owned Palestinian wheat field by allowing a flock of goats and sheep to graze on it. ...

14 April 2009 At about 3 PM in the old city of Hebron, 5 Israeli settlers trespassed onto the roof of a Palestinian house, puncturing the 5 water tanks owned by the family and draining all of their water supply. ...

The Big Campaign 14 April 2009 The transportation branch of the French multinational corporation Veolia loses a contract worth 750 million euros in Bordeaux. The Greater Bordeaux local government give a contract for the management of the biggest urban network ...

11 April 2009 A German national and an Italian national were taken by Israeli forces while accompanying farmers at 11am. Both individuals have been taken to the police station at Kyrat Arba. Palestinian farmers in At-Tuwani rely on the presence ...

Luisa Morgantini 11 April 2009 Of utmost concern for CPT and Operation Dove is the safe travel of Palestinian school children who walk from the nearby villages of Tuba and Magaher-al-Abeed to At-Tuwani’s elementary school. These school children face a ...

Palestine Solidarity Project 8 April 2009 Saffa, a village sandwiched between Sourif and Beit Ommar and home to just over 2000 residents, has been the site of overwhelming Israeli military and now settler violence in the last week.  Using the ...

Electronic Intifada 7 April 2009 “We are like the roots of a tree. The Israelis may cut us in places, but we will never die. We will not be transplanted from Jerusalem. I will not leave this house,” Maher Hanun ...

Violence from illegal Israeli settlers directed at Palestinian residents in Hebron is an almost everyday occurrence.  Recently however, several incidents indicate that settler violence in the city is increasing.  On the 4th of April at around 3pm, Shah Aiwa, a ...

7 April 2009 Israeli forces have started the construction of three new roads around the village of Qaryut, located in the Nablus district of the northern West Bank.  Qaryut is already surrounded on three sides by illegal Israeli settlements, and ...

Christian Peacemaker Teams 5 April, 2009 Juwayya, South Hebron Hills, West Bank [Note: According to the Geneva Conventions, the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and numerous United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are ...