Tag: Yitzhar Settlement
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Yitzhar settlers attack school children in Urif
by Chris Beckett 29 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Urif is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate of the northern occupied West Bank, located thirteen kilometres South of Nablus. The town has a population of just under 3000 inhabitants and is overlooked by the illegal Israeli colony of Yitzhar. Last week…
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Mapping a pattern of Israeli violence in Burin
13 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The pattern of settler and military invasion of Burin, a village near Nablus, is what locals and internationals are mapping to brace themselves for more property damage, violence, and threats by nearby illegal settlements and hardcore adherents to the volatile “Price Tag Campaign.” If the pattern…
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Settler violence rages in Nablus area
by Jonas Weber 29 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Yesterday, violence erupted close to Joseph’s Tomb when settlers gathered near the site. Youths from Balata refuge camp came out to chase the settlers off but where kept at a distance by the soldiers that accompanied the illegal settlers as usual. This is…
