Border Police Lash Out
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
The huge Palestinian flag that has been used by the village on demonstrations
Today’s non-violent demonstration against the Wall in Bil’in was attacked by the Israeli soldiers, as usual. The demonstrators reached the gate in the annexation wall that is stealing some 60% of the village’s land. The gate was blocked by several jeeps with Israeli border police standing on top and menacingly waving their clubs and pointing their M16 rifles at the demonstrators. (more…)
Settlers Vandalise School Property in Tel Rumeida April 28th, 2006 |
Sunday, April 30th, 2006FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Settlers from Beit Hadassa settlement in Tel Rumeida on the outskirts of the old city of Hebron vandalised a school path at Qurtuba school which is used by local Palestinian children. (more…)
Tel Rumeida Journal - Sunday 23/04/06
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006Our group was tired out after the large settler attack yesterday and apprehensive about what might happen over the coming week. We were hoping for a quiet day, and we got that. So here’s a description of a quiet day in Tel Rumeida… (more…)
Article from Ha aretz on Yesterdays Settler Attack in Tel Rumeida
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=707980&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0
Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006Nothing I had heard about, read or seen before I came here could prepare me for being in Balata Refugee camp.
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Sport Under Siege
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006While football teams in the UK are signing sponsorship deals with the Israeli Ministry of Tourism a group called Sport Under Siege (www.jalla03.org) are touring the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We met them this week in Toubas.
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Corporate Complicity in the Ethnic Cleansing of the Jordan Valley
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006I was convinced by a friend to take a trip to the Jordan Valley this week. This is my fourth trip to Palestine but I have never visited the region and have heard relatively little about it. This is symptomatic of the condition of the valley, it is largely forgotten by the international community and is rarely visited. This isolation serves the Israeli state’s aim of annexation and ethnic cleansing of the valley.
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Bil’in Demonstration Calls For Boycott of Israeli Products
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Today’s weekly Bil’in demonstration was themed around the boycott of Israeli products. Demonstrators carried signs calling for a boycott, and the support of Palestinian products. Packages of Israeli snacks and drinks were also attached to the placards with large X signs crossed through them.
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30 Settlers Attack Shop in Tel Rumeida
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006A gang of 30 militant Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian grocery shop today, and assaulted the owner’s son and several others.
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“How else could I buy food and clothes?”
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006At Al Quds Open University Campus in Tubas we met Raed and Firas, aged 22 and 21 yrs old. They both work in the fields and packing houses of the Jordan Valley settlements to be able to survive and pay for their education. On the days that they work they get up at 3.00am, to be bussed through the mountains and checkpoints to the Jordan Velley settlements with about 500 settlement workers from the town. They are able to do this as they have a permit to enter the Jordan Valley supplied by the Israeli settler they are working for. They work from 6.00am - 2.00pm, and for this they receive less than 5 pounds per day.
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