Israeli settlers felled some 40 olive trees on Monday, April 27, in the town of As-Sawiya, approximately 10km due south of the West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement construction in the northern West Bank, confirmed that a group of settlers from the nearby Israeli colonial settlement of Rechelim chopped down some 40…
As the coronavirus crisis with its and imposed isolation shutdowns continues, during the past week alone settlers have attacked Palestinians and their property in the Occupied West Bank on several occasions. Overnight Monday-Tuesday, April 13-14, a group of masked Israeli settlers in the southern West Bank pepper-sprayed and hurled stones at three Palestinian men and…
Amidst the increasing Coronavirus crisis and the imposed isolation shutdowns, during the last week alone settlers have attacked Palestinians and their property in the Occupied West Bank on numerous occasions. On Saturday, March 28, for the second consecutive day, settlers attacked the village of Al-Tuwani, south of the city of Hebron in the West Bank, according…
A video uploaded to Facebook on Friday, February 21, shows an Israeli army bulldozer driving at a high speed and pushing large boulders towards Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum. Two Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces attacked dozens of protesters taking part in the weekly anti-settlements protest in the…
Settlers desecrated and torched a mosque on Friday, January 24, in the village of Beit Safafa, southwest of Jerusalem. A group of Jewish settlers clandestinely entered the village before dawn, sprayed racist slogans on the walls of the Al-Badriya Mosque and then set fire to the building, partially damaging it. The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs…
Israel’s newly installed far-right defense minister, MK Naftali Bennett, announced on Sunday, December 1, his approval for the planning of a new settlement in the flashpoint Palestinian West Bank city of Hebron. The decision was quickly praised by the right and condemned by Hadash, Israeli peace movements and Palestinians. The settlement in Hebron is now made…
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Tires of 40 cars were slashed and racist graffiti was sprayed on buses in the Arab town of Jaljulia northeast of Tel Aviv, on Thursday night, November 28. Police opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the vandalism. “This is a very serious incident. These are racists who come to Arab communities to vandalize our…
The three Palestinian Arabic dailies focused in yesterday’s Sunday issue on a surge in attacks by Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank, against vulnerable Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season. The reports said that three farmers sustained various injuries on Saturday, October 19, when settlers attacked them while they were harvesting olives in…
Masked men from the settlement of Yitzhar in the Occupied Palestinian Territories wielding metal rods and stones attacked volunteers from Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR), a human rights organization based in Israel, while they were picking olives alongside Palestinian farmers in the West Bank village of Burin on Wednesday, October 16. According to a spokesperson for…
Residents of the West Bank Palestinian town of Yatma, 15km south of Nablus, reported on Tuesday, August 13, an apparent “price tag” hate crime in which in tires of several cars were punctured and the slogan “Jews don’t remain silent” followed by a Star of David was spray-painted on a building during the course of…