Tag: Settlers

  • Settlers doggedly intimidate Palestinians

    UPDATE | 16 November 2010: On Thursday December 16, an Israeli court sentenced Ayman Al Ghawi, a 19-year-old Palestinian, to four days under house-arrest following a confrontation with Israeli settlers in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem the prior day. 15 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement At around 3:30pm, Israeli police arrested a…

  • More Bedouin structures demolished in Jordan Valley

    24 November 2010 | Ma’an News Agency & ISM As the sun rose early Wednesday, Palestinian Bedouins living in Abu Al-Ajaj, a small village in the Jordan Valley, were surprised to see Israeli bulldozers demolishing their sheds and sheep shelters. The incident came only two weeks after Israeli authorities confiscated lands belonging to the village…

  • Settlers move into house after Israeli police evict Palestinian family

    23 November 2010 | The Guardian Family of 14 driven out of house in Jabel Mukaber, an Arab neighbourhood targeted by ideologically motivated settler activists. Jewish settlers today moved into a house in East Jerusalem after Israeli police evicted a Palestinian family of 14 and removed all their possessions. The move will dismay US officials…

  • Economic prison zones

    21 November 2010 | Sam Bahour, Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) Sam Bahour is a Palestinian business management consultant living in Ramallah. This essay was made possible with partial support from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. When a project mixes the feel-good words of jobs, economic development and Israeli- Palestinian cooperation, how can anyone complain?…

  • U.S. offers Israel warplanes in return for new settlement freeze

    13 November|Haaretz Netanyahu presents security cabinet with Clinton’s incentive of 20 F-35 fighter planes and security guarantees in exchange for 90-day West Bank building moratorium. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s seven-member inner cabinet discussed Saturday an offer by the United States to reinstate a freeze on West Bank Settlement construction in return for a package of…