Articles in the ‘Settler Violence’ category
Demonstrations in Al-Ma’asara, Elsewhere, in Solidarity with Hebron
This week’s Friday demonstration in Al-Ma’asara was dedicated in solidarity with the residents of Hebron, who were in the midst of a violent Israeli settler pogrom. Residents of Al-Ma’asara were joined by Israeli activists from Anarchists Against the Wall … Read more
Right-Wing Israeli Settlers Rampage Through Hebron, Other West Bank Cities
On Thursday, December 4, the Israeli police, supported by the Israeli military, carried out the largest evacuation of illegal settlers in Hebron city in recent times. Up to 250 settlers, most bussed in from outside, had reinforced a building … Read more
YNET: IDF Discovers Leftists in West Bank Village
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 … Read more
CPT: Israeli Settlers Attack Children for the Fourth Time in One Week
Chrisitian Peacemaker Teams, At-Tuwani:
On Wednesday July 30, settlers attacked fourteen Palestinian children between the ages six to twelve on their way from summer camp to their homes in the villages of Tuba and Magher Al-abeed. Five settlers hid themselves along the route of the children and waited for them. … Read more
Palestinians Require Hospitalization After Settler Attack in South Hebron
From Christian Peacemaker Teams-Tuwani
On 24 June 2008, around 6:30, two Israeli settlers beat two unarmed Palestinian shepherds from Mantiquat Shi’bal Butum. The settlers came down from the nearby Israeli settlement outpost of Mitzpe Yair to an area where the shepherds, aged fifty-five and twenty, routinely graze their sheep. Armed … Read more
Children, International Observers and a Pregnant Woman Abused in 3 Days of Harassment in South Hebron
from the Christian Peacemaker Teams
March 17, 2008
An Israeli settler yelled threatening remarks, and wielded a rock at young Palestinian children on the way to school in the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. About twenty children from the villages of … Read more
Demonstration in Solidarity with Gaza in Beit Ommar, Settlers Open Fire
Today approximately 50 Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists marched towards the Karmi Tsur settlement, built on Beit Ommar’s land. Karmi Tsur has recently been the staging area for the Israeli Occupation Forces as they invade Beit Ommar with increasing violence throughout the … Read more
CPT: Israeli Soldiers and Settlers Harass Palestinian Shepherds, Soldiers Wound Sheep
Christian Peacemaker Teams: At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills
On Saturday, February 23nd, Israeli soldiers and settlers harassed and threatened Palestinian shepherds grazing their flocks. Several Palestinian shepherds from the village of At-Tuwani and nearby villages in the South Hebron Hills attempted to graze their flocks … Read more
Settlers Attack Beit Ommar Resident
In what has become quite the norm in Occupied Palestine, settler violence again strikes the area of Beit Ommar. During a complete closure on the Palestinian village of Beit Ommar on December 31, in which Palestinians were not allowed to either leave … Read more
Hundreds March in South Hebron, Settlers Retaliate by Attacking Local Boy
On Saturday nearly 200 Israelis and internationals joined the Palestinian residents of Tuwani and Tuba in the South Hebron Hills as they marched from Tuwani to Tuba where they accompanied local farmers as they plowed their fields next to the illegal Israeli outpost, … Read more
