Tag: Yatta

  • Israel continues to besiege Palestinian towns, breach international law in occupied West Bank

    Israel continues to besiege Palestinian towns, breach international law in occupied West Bank

    3rd July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Occupied Hebron In the last three days Israeli military forces have implemented several blockades isolating the cities of Yatta and Bani Na’im south of Hebron. It is reported that cement roadblocks, earth mounds, gates and checkpoints have been installed across the region, with no timeline for when…

  • PCHR calls for investigations into incidents in Yatta town

    PCHR calls for investigations into incidents in Yatta town

    8th May 2014 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights | Yatta, Occupied Palestine The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) calls upon the Attorney General to seriously open an investigation into incidents that took place in Yatta town near Hebron on Monday, 05 May 2014. The incidents included beatings, arrests, house raids, and destruction of civilians’ belongings by…

  • Palestinian woman seriously injured in settlers’ attack

    11 April 2012 | The Palestinian Information Center AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A Palestinian woman was hospitalized with serious injuries in her head after a group of Jewish settlers attacked her near Yatta village, south of Al-Khalil. An eyewitness said that 40-year-old Samiha Nawaja was attacked by a group of masked Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement…