Wednesday, October 18 2023 information and links // מידע וקישורים ימים נוראים אלה של טבח וחורבן, פעילי תעאיוש ממשיכים להגיע לקהילות רועים וחקלאים בסיכון בדרום הר חברון ובבקעת הירדן, שוהים עם הקהילות המאוימות ביותר ומנסים להושיט עזרה כמידת יכולתם. לכל חברותינו ושותפינו לדרך, אנו מצרפים כאן קישורים לאתרים וחשבונות פייסבוק וטוויטר שבהם ניתן להתעדכן במתרחש בזמן אמת, מחוץ לטווח הסיקור המוטה של התקשורת הישראלית, בשטחים הכבושים ובעזה הנצורה. In these terrible days of slaughter and destruction, Ta’ayush activists keep vigil in threatened communities of farmers and shepherds in the South Hebron Hills and Jordan Valley, staying with those most endangered […]
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Tuesday, June 4 2019 June 1, 2019: Umm al-Amad, Susya, Kivsat Harash Text: David Shulman Read here: June 1, 2019: Umm al-Amad, Susya, Kivsat Harash. Text: David Shulman
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Monday, May 20 2019 May 17, 2019 Khirbet Humsa This year the training exercises are scheduled to go on for close to a month, from May 12th to June 5th, and it’s not just any month. It’s Ramadan. These exercises in Firing Zone 903, which includes Khirbet Humsa al-Tahta, “Lower Humsa,” have a baffling schedule; here is the paper the army handed out, marking the times when the Bedouin families had to leave their homes. Report by David Shulman. Read more, here: May 17, 2019 Khirbet Humsa. Report by David Shulman
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Monday, April 22 2019 April 21, 2019. Ein Rashash The settlers came out yesterday and drove the shepherds away. Yesterday was Shabbat and the first day of Pesach. There are many ways to celebrate a festival. Today the shepherds have four large herds out on the hills. We walk two or three kilometers, maybe more, toward the farthest herd. The sun is leaking light as we begin, but by the time we approach the ridge the sky turns black, and then it’s raining hard, and after that there is heavy hail, and a fierce frozen wind. It doesn’t stop. […]
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Wednesday, March 20 2019 Al-Hadidiya, Halat Makhul, Umm Zuqa – March 17, 2019; Impressions from the Jordan Valley by David Shulman; Photographs: Margaret Olin. Read more: March 17, 2019 Al-Hadidiya, Halat Makhul, Umm Zuqa. text: David Shulman; Photographs: Margaret Olin (mostly)
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Monday, March 11 2019 How Palestinian Land Goes From the Israeli Army to the Settlers 45 settlements have been built on Palestinian land requisitioned for military purposes. A new study explains how. Read Analysis by Amira Hass: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-palestinian-land-goes-from-the-army-to-the-settlers-1.7004514?=&ts=_1552306620580
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Sunday, July 30 2017 Saturday, 29.7, in the South Hebron Hills Today at the South Hebron Hills – accompanying shepherds and construction work. We joined the shepherds of Um el Amad to their grazing lands near the settlement of Otniel, could have been really pastoral if not for the soldiers and settlers watching us all morning. In Um el Kheir we cleaned the ruins of the community center that was destroyed (again), while the houses of the colonialists of Carmel are still standing without interruption. Written by Li, photos by Michal.
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Saturday, May 6 2017 Al Auja: A Resistance Chronicle On Friday 4/28/2017 hundreds protested against a settler assault a week earlier on shepherds from Al Auja, the Jordan Valley, Palestine, that resulted in five injured solidarity activists. Following is a Taayush activist’s account of the struggle those shepherds undertook. A blog post by Amitai Ben Abba on clownmonkey.
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