Articles Archive for September 2008
Beit Ommar »
Local residents can’t help but think that Israeli Occupation Forces are trying to provoke a fight with youth, as yet another evening passes with the sounds of explosions and live ammunition in the air. IOF soldiers, for the past week, have entered Beit Ommar in the late afternoon, often setting up a checkpoint at the entrance to the village to interfere with traffic for two hours or so, just when people are trying to get home after a day of fasting for Ramadan. They then proceed to the center of town where they position massive Armored Personnel Carriers outside the main mosques, daring residents to go to evening prayer as the month-long religious holiday comes to an end. … Continue reading
Apartheid Wall, Ni'lin »
On September 23 Ahed Khawajeh, one of the most active members of the Popular Resistance against the Annexation Barrier in Ni’lin, was accompanying a group of European Union Parliamentarians on a survey of the land that is to be confiscated by the Annexation Barrier. He, along with the mayor of Ni’lin and two other members of the Popular Committee and the members of EU Parliament, were approached by Israeli soldiers who told them they were forbidden to access their land and that the entire area was a closed military zone. The Ahed and the others began to leave but as Ahed turned back, he was hit directly in the face with a tear gas canister shot from within … Continue reading
Betlehem District »
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“Mr. President:
I don’t know if you will read these words or not, or if I will be alive if you do. But I do hope that these words, which come from the heart, reach your heart, Mr. President, and that you can find the hope and strength that our people — your people — still have. We do not give up our rights. We will never give up our rights. Peace can be built with justice. Real peace can be built with real justice, anything else is just a joke in the face of history.
My name is Abdelfattah Abdelkarim Hasan Ibrahim Mohamad Ahmed Mostafa Ibrahim Srour Abusrour. I am still a … Continue reading
Apartheid Wall, Direct Action, Ni'lin »
On Wednesday, September 17, more than 50 Israeli supporters of Palestinian Independence joined the residents of Ni’lin in another demonstration against the construction of the Annexation Barrier. In addition to the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall, a constant presence at Anti-Barrier demonstrations, members of the ultra-orthodox Naturei Karta sect of Judaism and other Israeli peace activists joined Palestinians in the center of town. The group then marched towards the edge of the village where Israeli Occupation Forces met them and began shooting tear gas at the crowd. Two small groups of activists managed to get around the soldiers and made their way to the bulldozers, stopping their work for several … Continue reading
Beit Ommar »
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For years, Israeli authorities have both barred Palestinian access to rings of land surrounding settlements, and have not acted to eliminate settlers’ piratical closing of lands adjacent to settlements and blocking of Palestinian access to them. Blocking access is one of the many ways used to expand settlements. In recent years, Israel has institutionalized the closing of such lands in an attempt to retroactively sanction the unauthorized placement of barriers far from the houses at the edge of the settlements.
Settlers pave patrol roads and place physical obstructions on Palestinian lands adjacent to settlements, at times with the authorities’ approval, at others not. Settlers also … Continue reading
Betlehem District »
The signs are all there. For the past five nights small teams of Israeli soldiers have entered Beit Ommar, stayed for a few hours wreaking havoc on the village, and then left. It is a pattern the residents have become all too familiar with. These smaller-scale invasions, whose beginning coincided with an attack on a settlement just down the road and the subsequent killing of a Palestinian man by Israeli soldiers in Tekoa village, are often the precursors to a large-scale daytime invasion. In similar invasions 2 young men have been killed by Israeli forces in Beit Ommar in the last 8 months alone.
On Friday night, September 12, at approximately 2 am, Israeli Occupation … Continue reading
Settler Violence »
Soldiers operating in village of Asira al-Kabaliya, which was attacked by settlers Saturday, find group of left-wing activists in one of houses. ‘It was our duty to arrive and express our solidarity with the residents,’ explains activist Yonatan Polak
By Ali Waked
An IDF force which raided the West Bank village of Asira al-Kabaliya near the settlement of Yitzhar on Saturday night, apparently as part of an operation for the arrest of wanted Palestinians, was surprised to discover a group of left-wing activists in one of the houses.
The activists arrived in the area following the riots which broke out in the village Saturday after a Palestinian stabbed a nine-year-old Jewish child and settlers flocked to … Continue reading
Apartheid Wall, Ni'lin »
This Friday residents of Ni’lin were joined by dozens of supporters, including leaders from the Anti-Wall movements in Budrus, Al-Ma’asara and Bi’lin, to commemorate the deaths of two young men, Ahmed Mousa, 10, and Yousef Amira, 18, during their own struggle against the Annexation Barrier. Members of the community, including the head of the city council and a relative of Yousef’s, spoke to a crowd of hundreds of people about the struggle against the confiscation of their land and the need to continue the resistance in Ni’lin. Ayed Morrar, the leader of the most successful anti-Wall struggle in the nearby village of Budrus, spoke movingly about the connection of Ni’lin’s struggle to struggles reaching back 5 years … Continue reading
Apartheid Wall, Ni'lin »
Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouti says Defense Minister Barak, soldiers responsible for critical injury of mentally ill Palestinian in West Bank village should be tried by International Criminal Court in Hague. Rights groups urge attorney general, judge advocate general to launch investigation into incident.
by Ali Waked
Left-wing organizations have called for a military investigation into the critical injury of a mentally ill Palestinian by rubber-coated steel bullets fired at him in the West Bank village of Naalin on Monday.
The organizations appealed to Judge Advocate General Avihai Mandelblit and Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and urged them to probe the matter.
Many neighbors flocked Monday to the Srur family home following the injury of one of its sons, Ayed Awad.
Abu Mahmoud, one of the … Continue reading
