Tag: Yitzhar Settlement
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Assira, surrounded on all sides
Assira al Quiblya is a West Bank village up on a hill between Huwwara and Nablus. But unfortunately, it is not sufficiently uphill enough to be free and safe from the Yitzhar settlement. This settlement, one of the most active in assaults, makes life more and more difficult for the Palestinian inhabitants. For many years…
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Settlers set fire to Palestinian chicken farm
20th April 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team| Madama, Occupied Palestine On Friday 18th April, during the night in the village of Madama, settlers from a nearby illegal settlement entered a Palestinian farm and sat fire to a newly built chicken house. The damage totaled $12,500 for the 3,500 chickens and their food, as…
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Illegal extremist settlement of Yitzhar expands during ‘peace talks’
28th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Asira al Qibliya, Occupied Palestine Around 80 settlers and soldiers brought diggers and steam rollers near the Asira water project and started to flatten ground on private Palestinian land. Residents fear this is the first stage in an expansion of the illegal extremist settlement of…
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Settler harassment continues in Asira’s Water reservoir project
4th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Asira al Qibliya , Occupied Palestine This week, settlers from Yitzhar attacked the Asira village water project and its workers, once again. Israeli occupation forces who went to the scene did not to stop the settlers and instead occupied the roof of a Palestinian house…
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Arson attack on Asira village by illegal settlement of Yitzhar
30th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Asira, Occupied Palestine At 1.30pm today, 30th May, thirty settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar trespassed on to land above the village of Asira, lighting fires and throwing rocks at around seventy villagers who came to extinguish the flames and defend their village. Israeli…
