Serious escalation in crimes committed by settler-colonists against Palestinians and their property throughout the West Bank and Jerusalem this week; a new outpost was set up under protection of the Israeli army on privately-owned Palestinian land of Deir Jarayer, close to the site where Ahuviya Sandak was killed – Palestinian locals and activists who came to protest were violently chased away by the Israeli army; protest demonstrators from Salfit against the new outpost close to their town were dispersed by teargas and stun grenades; house demolitions in the South Hebron […]Wednesday, December 23 2020 December 18, 2020 Al-‘Auja and Taybeh: David Shulman
Abu Isma‘il promises me that if I come every day, he’ll teach me the language of the sheep. In time, I could become fluent. It’s an offer that’s hard to resist. Those throaty clucks and clicks and lengthy grunts and warbles—to my ears, it’s like some rustic dialect of Italian. But I can’t go there every day, and anyway the corona virus has finally reached Nu‘ema, where we start the day with Samir. Today is the first time that I’ve seen the shepherds fully aware, and concerned, about it. A […]Sunday, December 20 2020 This week – December 13-19, 2020 – in the Occupied Territories
Armed militias of settler-colonists now raid Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills: unhampered, or actually backed up by the Israeli army, they conduct searches inside Palestinian homes in the dead of night, put up road blocks and assault Palestinians inside their homes, in their fields and pasture areas; a settler-colonist fired a volley from his army-issued weapon at Palestinians on their way home to Susya from plowing their fields; at the West Bank Hill Range, a settler-colonist fired his pistol directly at Palestinian and Israeli protest-demonstrators near the village […]Sunday, December 13 2020 This week – December 6-12, 2020 – in the Occupied Territories
Annexation de-facto: Israeli soldiers detained Palestinian inhabitants of South Hebron Hills communities, who were on their way home from the town of Yatta, at a checkpoint on the road, proclaiming they were “blacklisted against entering Israel”; Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian at Qalandiya Checkpoint; At Farisiya, a settler-colonist set his dog against a Palestinian flock, several sheep were wounded – Israeli army and police arrived at the scene with the settler-colony’s security official, and chased away – the Palestinian shepherd and his flock; a protest demonstration was held […]Monday, December 7 2020 This week – November 29-December 5, 2020 – in the Occupied Territories Israeli soldiers shot to death a boy from Mughayar village who participated in a demonstration protesting the building of a new settler-colonist outpost near his village; settler-colonists from ‘Maskiyot’ in the Palestinian Jordan Valley attacked Palestinian shepherds from En Al Hilwa and injured their flocks; invasions by settler-colonists from outposts of Palestinian privately-owned land and Waqf ground in the Palestinian Jordan Valley, the West Bank hill range and South Hebron Hills are expanding, backed up by the Israeli army and the Civil Administration that – at the same time – […]
Saturday, December 5 2020 December 2, 2020 Hadidiye and Taibeh By David Shulman. “The water the settlers waste on their grass over there would suffice for a thousand human beings a day.” Thus Abu Saqer, and he should know. He pays thousands of shekels every month to bring in water by tanker from Bardala, some ways to the north. Once he had seventy or eighty wells and rain cisterns scattered over the hills near Hadidiye. All of them, without exception, have been blocked by the army. Even the cistern that several of us cleaned out and made usable again, four […]
Tuesday, December 1 2020 This week – November 22-28, 2020 – in the Occupied Territories
The Israeli occupation forces ran a demolition rampage throughout the Massafer Yatta villages in the South Hebron Hills, and in addition to many dwellings and various service structures, they also severed the water main that supplied the area’s communities and was donated by humanitarian organizations at a cost of about 100,000 Euro; the army violently dispersed Palestinian activists’ protest against the horrifying destruction of Humsa – 2 people were injured by rubber-coated bullets, another 17 from inhaling teargas; activists blocked the entrance to Heidelberg Cement quarry at ‘Sha’ar Shomron’ (Hebrew […]Sunday, November 22 2020 This week – November 15-22, 2020 – in the Occupied Territories
Cases of explicit cooperation of the Civil Administration, Israeli army and police with incursions of settler-colonists from their outposts into Palestinians’ lands and homes in the South Hebron Hills – while the pace of demolitions of Palestinian structures and property throughout Area C and East Jerusalem is steadily growing; a Palestinian activist was wounded on Friday by Israeli army fire during a violent dispersion of a protest demonstration against a new setlter-colonist outpost in Samiya, in the West Bank hill range, and a paramedic was detained; activists from Palestine, Israel […]
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