Tag: Silwan

  • French human rights activist arrested at West Bank protest

    26 September 2010 | ISM Media Beit Ummar, West Bank French activist Bruno de Ginestet-Puivert, 21, was arrested by Israeli authorities on Saturday 25 September demonstrating alongside Palestinians in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar, near Hebron. He is believed to be charged with assaulting an officer, though witnesses say this allegation is completely…

  • Settler guard murders Palestinian in East Jerusalem; police fire gas at his funeral

    23 September 2010 | ISM Media On the morning of Tuesday 22 September a privately-hired Israeli settler security guard shot and killed a Palestinian man in the neighbourhood of Silwan in Palestinian East Jerusalem (Al-Quds). The killed man, Samer Sarhan, was aged 32 and had five children. Eyewitnesses say the shooting followed a verbal disagreement…

  • Two Silwan residents shot dead by settlement guards

    22 September 2010 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan Update: only one man was killed in Silwan. More people were injured but not killed by gunshots. Massive army presence as clashes continue in Baten el-Hawa, next to Beit Yonathan settlement. Very early this morning in Silwan Village, a patrol of private armed guards stopped…

  • Israeli police accused of targeting Jerusalem’s Arab residents

    11 September 2010 | The Independent A leading civil-rights group has accused Israeli police of systematic discrimination against the Arab residents of East Jerusalem as growing numbers of hardline religious Jews take up residence in Palestinian areas. A report from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Acri) found that violent confrontations between Jewish residents…

  • Armed settler guards attack mosque in Wadi Hilweh, shots fired at Palestinian residents

    26 August 2010 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center Violence has swept through Wadi Hilweh again as Israeli settler security guards attempted to storm the neighborhood mosque last night, in what marks the third time such an attack has been launched on the local religious site. Settler guards fired live ammunition at Palestinian residents in the…