Saturday, September 4 2021 This week – August 29 to September 4, 2021 – in the Occupied Territories
‘Havat Omer’ settler annexed vast Muslim Waqf lands to his expanding outpost, closing the area with an electric fence, but when Palestinian and Israeli activists held a protest picnic on the grounds, an army force drove them away at the settler’s orders; As Israel opened a new school year, an army commander, doing the bidding of Havat Maon settlers, prevented activists from escorting the children of Touba to their school, and his soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian activist from the meeting point, keeping him detained for five hours in order to […]Sunday, August 29 2021 This week – August 22 – 28, 2021 – in the Occupied Territories
Hamra, Palestinian Jordan Valley, Tuesday: Israeli soldiers forced a shepherd boy to the ground and shackled his feet and hands, when out of sheer fear he nearly swallowed his tongue, fainted, and only regained consciousness two hours later – the woman officer stepped on the back of the other shepherd boy, a 12-year-old – then the soldiers removed the shackles and left, and the comatose boy was rushed off to hospital; Invasions of settler flocks continue in Palestinian-tended fields and vineyards in the South Hebron Hills, in the Palestinian Jordan […]Sunday, August 22 2021 August 20, 2021. Dir Jarir.
Text and Photographs: David Shulman Dawn at Dir Jarir. One herd of sheep is already out on the hills with Khairi’s son. They’re grazing not so far from the noxious outpost of Maaleh Ahuvia, but for now things are quiet. No settlers in sight. That sentence reveals the story of Dir Jarir. Dawn, noon, dusk, midnight, and all the hours in between– demented teenage settlers can turn up at any moment, in the Palestinian fields, in their makeshift tents, and even in their homes. They threaten and bully them, often […]Sunday, August 22 2021 This week – August 15-21, in the Occupied Territories
Dozens of caravans were delivered this week to expand the ‘illegal’ settler outposts in the South Hebron Hills; two activists – a Palestinian and an Israeli – were wounded by shots fired by the occupation forces at the prayer and protest assembly against the expansion of Avigail outposts; the Israeli army once more mobilized to help terrorists from Havat Maon and Avigail in chasing away Palestinian surveyors and landowners from their fields in the area; activist accompaniment of shepherds in the Palestinian Jordan Valley and the West Bank Hill Range […]Sunday, August 15 2021 This week – August 8 – 14, 2021 – in the Occupied Territories
Israel continues to demolish Palestinian houses, farm structures and water cisterns in Area C, while ‘illegal’ construction and expansion of settler outposts and ranches are bluntly carried out on Palestinian land with support of the occupation forces, and settlers attack Palestinian shepherds, invade and damage Palestinians’ fields, property and homes throughout the Occupied Territories; More police brutality in Sheikh Jarrah and at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem photo: Jerusalem police attacking demonstrators in Sheikh Jarrah on Friday, August 13, 2021 South Hebron Hills On Wednesday, August 11, the occupation forces went […]Sunday, August 8 2021 This week – August 1 – 7, 2021 – in the Occupied Territories
The weekly Palestinian victim of IDF’s wild shooting is a father of 5 from Beita, Imad Dwaikat, killed by soldiers during a demonstration against the robbery of his village’s lands; At the height of the present heat wave, the state of Israel demolished 38 structures in two days throughout the occupied West Bank – leaving 75 persons, 47 of them minors, without a roof over their heads and no shade; The Israeli army collaborates with settlers from ‘Avigail’, an illegal outpost, in chasing away Palestinian landowners and surveyors from their […]Sunday, August 1 2021 This week – July 25-31, 2021 – in the Occupied Territories
Total of the Israeli army’s weekly target practice: soldiers shot to death 12-year old Mohammad Al Alami of Beit Ommar who was sitting innocently in his dad’s car, 20-year old Shawaqat Awad who participated in the former victim’s funeral the next day, and plumber Shadi Lutfi Salim of Beita village who was holding ‘an object identified as a metal rod’ – a pipe wrench he was using for his job; settlers in the Palestinian Jordan Valley fence and block with concrete the Al Hilwa spring in order to prevent Palestinian […]
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