Tag: Settlers
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Friday Demonstration at Beit’El
Some impressions of last friday demonstration (Dec 29) at Beit’El where an illegal settlement has been set up: The settlement of Beit’El has been built illegally in the year 1977. Growing in its population it counts more than 5600 settlers. By taking their land Palestinians do not have full access to water supplies, farming land…
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‘Feast of Sarah’ Holiday Draws Thousands of Settlers to Al-Khalil
12th November 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | al-Khalil, Occupied Palestine The Feast of Sarah did not pass unnoticed for the Palestinian residents of al-Khalil (Hebron). Jewish worshippers had been arriving from Israel in large numbers for days prior, together with a consequent increase of military presence. Yesterday morning, at 9:00 AM, soldiers…
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A Tale of Zero Cities
11th November 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Um al-Khair, Occupied Palestine Last month in northern Palestine brought stories of Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement that, however horrifying, all suffered an important shortcoming: the scope of the stories lent to individual scapegoats, and in doing so provided a vivid, but ultimately penny-deep…
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Remembering Balfour under Apartheid
6th November 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Yesterday in al Khalil (Hebron) the Palestinian group Youth Against Settlements held an event to mark the 100th years anniversary of The Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration is viewed as a foundational document of the Israeli states ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Despite…
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Israeli military shot 20-year old in the chest with rubber coated steel bullet
8th September 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, Huwwara-team | Kafr Qaddum, occupied Palestine During the demonstration in Kfar Qaddum today, Friday the 8th of September, a 20-year old Palestinian protester was shot with a rubber coated steel bullet in his chest, and treated at the scene, while camera drones were buzzing above the heads of…
