The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, commented on Saturday, Febuary 2, in response to the joint statement issued by the Foreign Ministers of Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey following Israel’s decision not to renew the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH). A statement issued by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman…
A Palestinian father and his son were injured on Saturday, November 4, after they were attacked by extremist Israeli settlers in the Tell Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron city, in the southern West Bank, according to the Wafa Palestinian news agency. Dozens of Jewish settlers from the illegal settlements of Ramat Yshai and Beit Hadassa attacked…
“Here live enemies – Expel or kill!” This slogan of incitement was graffitied by Jewish settlers in June 2018 on the walls of a home in the Palestinian village of ‘Urif, near the Israeli settlement of Yizhar. This call for either transferring or exterminating the indigenous Arab population was spray-painted while the Israeli human rights…
The village of ‘Urif, with a population of some 3,600, is located southwest of Nablus in the northern West Bank. Due to its proximity to the settlement of Yitzhar and its satellite outposts, village residents have been suffering for years from repeated attacks by settlers. Yitzhar was established in 1983, only about one kilometer from…
The 2018 olive harvest season will last approximately from mid-September to mid-November. However, a pest that infects olive trees, particularly in the norther West Bank, and settler violence against Palestinian farmers are expected to significantly reduce this year’s yield compared with 2017. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),…
Breaking the Silence will be conducting an English-language tour in the Palestinian city of Hebron, next Thursday, September 27. Hebron is the second largest city in the West Bank and the only Palestinian city with an Israeli settlement in the heart of it. The tour is led by former soldiers who broke their silence on…
Israeli Border Police detained on Friday, August 30, two senior members of the anti-occupation organization Breaking the Silence near the illegal outpost of Mitzpe Yair in the occupied Palestinian territories. The group’s executive director, Avner Gvaryahu, and communications director, Achiya Schatz, were detained for questioning by border police. Attorney Michael Sfard was also detained for…
A demonstration against the occupation of the Palestinian territories will be held today, Friday, August 31, in the South Hebron Hills. The protest was called after settlers from the area brutally attacked Israeli activists belonging to the peace group Ta’ayush last weekend. The activists were documenting illegal construction in the unauthorized Jewish outpost of Mitzpe Yair. The activists…
From May 1 to July 7 of this year, the Israeli human rights association B’Tselem documented 10 cases in which settlers destroyed a total of more than 2,000 olive trees and vines and burned a barley field and bales of hay in the occupied West Bank. Some Palestinian farmers have suffered repeated attacks. According to…
The Israeli government has “regularized” the previously unrecognized Jewish outpost of Havat Gilad in the occupied West Bank, and will be connecting it to the electrical and water grids, and paving an access road for “security and humanitarian reasons.” The government and the Ministerial Committee for Legislation are also considering a bill that would allow…