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…
Hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis marched in the occupied West Bank village on Nabi Saleh on Saturday, January 14, to demand that Israel free the Tamimi family women, 16-year-old Ahed and her mother Nariman, as well as other members of the popular resistance committees who have been arrested by Israeli soldiers over the past several…
During the month of November, Yesh Din documented 27 incidents of violence against Palestinians and damage to their property in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Among them were 17 cases of violence or damage to property by Israeli civilians, 13 involving the olive harvest, including the theft of olives from hundreds of trees on…
Israeli settlers reportedly attacked a group of Palestinian olive pickers on Friday, October 27, in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, according to the official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa news agency. Wafa reported that settlers from the settlement of Maon, built illegally on land belonging to the nearby town of Yatta, physically assaulted…