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Settlers attack mosque Imam, IOF arrest a boy

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 08:08 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A number of Jewish settlers attacked on Saturday the imam of Ain Silwan mosque in Silwan town in Jerusalem after storming the neighboring area. Jerusalemite sources stated that the settlers attacked the seventy-year-old imam of Ain Silwan mosque, Adam Samreen, under the pretext of enabling tourists [...]

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Bethlehem: 18 year old Palestinian stabbed by Israeli settlers

27 May 2012 | Richard Frank and Dan Langley | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank 18 year old Saleh al-Zoghayer, who was recently stabbed by Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem, has been at the centre of the media recently. Several contradicting and false reports surfaced along with a shocking photograph of Saleh following the stabbing. The [...]

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Condemnation after videos show settlers burning Palestinian olive groves

Al Akhbar English Published Sunday, May 27, 2012 A leading Israeli rights group has condemned new footage showing extremist Jewish settlers, some wearing masks, setting fire to Palestinian olive groves as Israeli soldiers watch. Dozens of Israelis from the Yitzhar settlement attacked Palestinians in the Urif area, throwing stones before burning wheat fields and olive [...]

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Zionist occupation forces soldiers break into, search school

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 04:34 PM ] QALQILIA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into a high school in Kufr Qaddoum village to the east of Qalqilia and prevented students and teachers from entering it, local sources said. Murad Eshtiwe, the coordinator of the village’s weekly march, said that the soldiers searched the school provoking [...]

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DFLP leader calls for settler watch groups

Maan News Agency | May 27, 2012   RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinians must respond to settler attacks by reactivating popular watch groups, a leader from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Sunday. Qais Abed al-Karim stressed the importance of forming popular watch committees to protect Palestinians and their property from increasing settler [...]

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Photos | Extremist Israeli Settlers set olive trees on fire and shoot a Palestinian man in ‘Urif – May 26, 2012

May 27, 2012 Not a week after a group of settlers, under “supervison” and passive agreement of the zionist army already shot a young man, May 26, 2012 zionist settlers again attacked and shot a man in the abdomen. While no justice has done so far concerning last weeks attack, undisturbed Israel’s army glows of [...]

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VIDEO | Settlers setting fire to Palestinian olive groves, ‘Urif, 26.5.2012, Raw footage

May 26, 2012 Video by btselem Settlers from Yitzhar setting fire to olive groves belonging to residents of the village ‘Urif. 00190.MTS   Israel Arms & Trains Illegal Settlers for Rampage in Occupied Palestine – in pictures Leaked document “Operation Summer Seeds”: Israeli forces train & arm settlers to attack Palestinian protesters MP Barghouthi warns [...]

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(Again) Israeli settler shoots Palestinian in West Bank

Maan News Agency | May 26, 2012 NABLUS (Reuters) — An Israeli settler shot and wounded a Palestinian man on Saturday in a clash that began when a group of settlers set fire to fields belonging to a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, officials said. Residents said about 25 settlers, some of them [...]

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Jewish settlers close main West Bank road

[ PIC 24/05/2012 - 10:49 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Jewish settlers from Tikwa and nearby settlements to the east of Bethlehem attacked Palestinian commuters and closed the main road linking north of the West Bank to its southern areas on Wednesday evening. Eyewitnesses said that dozens of Jewish settlers carrying machineguns and batons closed the [...]

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PA: Settlers torch farmland near Nablus

Maan News Agency | May 23, 2012 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Thursday torched farmland near Nablus in the northern West Bank, a PA official said. Ghassan Doughlas told Ma’an that residents of Yitzhar settlement set fire to large swathes of agricultural land in Madma village. Witnesses told Ma’an that villagers clashed with the [...]

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Israeli Settlers with Soldiers Close Road Near Bethlehem, Harass Residents

Thursday May 24, 2012 05:50 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Palestinian sources reported that on Wednesday evening dozens of Israeli settlers closed the main road near Tiqua’ town, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, blocking Palestinian traffic which led to an extended traffic jam. Archive Photo – Pal Press The settlers, [...]

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Jewish extremist settlers attack again, this time in Bethlehem village

[ PIC 23/05/2012 - 09:39 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Dozens of Jewish settlers attacked Taku village to the south east of Bethlehem on Tuesday night, local sources said. They said that the settlers came in around 20 vehicles under protection of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and tried to assault citizens and shop owners. The [...]

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Settlers ‘attack village’ near Bethlehem

Maan News Agency | May 22, 2012   BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Tuesday attacked several homes during a march through a village near Bethlehem, witnesses said. Dozens of settlers threw rocks at homes and shops in Tuqu and shut down the main road, preventing cars from entering the village, locals told Ma’an. Israeli [...]

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B’Tselem: the occupation army provides cover for settlers in their attacks

[ PIC 21/05/2012 - 09:51 PM ] NAZARETH (PIC)– “B’Tselem” organization revealed that the occupation army provided security cover for Zionist settlers’ attacks on Palestinian civilians. The Zionist Organization stated that their cameras had filmed a video to document a settlers’ attack on Palestinian citizens in Nablus city, northern West Bank, and that this video [...]

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Jewish settlers assault woman, lawyer in Yatta

[ PIC 21/05/2012 - 09:25 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A Palestinian human rights lawyer and a woman were assaulted by Jewish settlers to the east of Yatta town in Al-Khalil province at noon Monday. The lawyer, Nasser Nawaja, said that the settlers attacked him while trying to document their attacks on Palestinian farmers east of [...]

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IOF soldiers damage irrigation equipment, crops in Al-Khalil

[ PIC 21/05/2012 - 02:24 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) damaged irrigation equipment and crops in Buka area to the east of Al-Khalil at dawn Monday, farmers said. They told the PIC that IOF soldiers and Israeli policemen and civil administration and Mekorot water company employees damaged the fields in an area [...]

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Witnesses: Settlers torch agricultural crops in Yatta

Maan News Agency | May 20, 2012 HEBRON (Ma’an) — A group of settlers on Sunday set fire to agricultural crops in the Hebron town of Yatta, locals said. Witnesses told Ma’an that settlers torched wheat and barley crops belonging to Yousef Abu Sabha. Farmers in Yatta fear more attacks and are reluctant to harvest [...]

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Jewish settlers start to defile Aqsa Mosque Sunday morning

[ PIC 20/05/2012 - 09:21 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Dozens of Jewish settlers started Sunday morning to flock into the courtyards of the Aqsa Mosque at the invitation of the right-wing Likud party to celebrate the occupation of east Jerusalem. According to the Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage, a group of about 25 [...]

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Jewish settlers destroy olive trees in Al-Khalil

[ PIC 19/05/2012 - 06:12 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A group of Jewish settlers uprooted dozens of olive and almond trees and vineyards in Beit Ummar village to the north of Al-Khalil at dawn Saturday. Coordinator of the popular committee in the village Mohammed Ayyad told the PIC that the settlers sneaked into the Palestinian [...]

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Four Palestinians wounded when 50 settlers attack

[ PIC 19/05/2012 - 05:45 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Four Palestinians were wounded on Saturday when Jewish settlers attacked their village south of Nablus city, eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter. They said that more than 50 Jewish settlers from Yitzhar settlement attacked Assira Al-Qabaliya village throwing stones at civilians and setting their wheat and olive [...]

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Jewish settlers, officials storm Aqsa mosque

[ 17/05/2012 - 09:56 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A group of 25 Jewish settlers accompanied by an Israeli minister stormed the holy Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Thursday morning. Mahmoud Abu Ata, a spokesman for the Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage, told the PIC that 25 settlers, a minister, and media personnel [...]

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Settlers torch car in Nablus

Maan News Agency |  May 17, 2012   NABLUS (Ma’an) — A group of settlers on Thursday set fire to a car in Nablus, a PA official said. Three settlers from Yitzhar settlement set fire to the car in Einabus village, PA official Ghassan Daghlas told Ma’an. The owner, Zain Mustafa Allan, said the car [...]

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Jewish settlers seize Palestinian land in Bethlehem

[ Palestinian Information Center 12/05/2012 - 02:31 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Jewish settlers seized Palestinian land in Khader village, south of Bethlehem, on Saturday and started farming it. Ahmed Salah, the coordinator of the popular committee in the village, said that settlers from Hanania settlement took control over six dunums of Mustafa Ghunaim’s land and [...]

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Jewish settlers set hundreds of olive trees on fire

[ PIC 09/05/2012 - 01:44 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers set hundreds of Palestinian olive trees on fire in Jamaeen and Yasuf villages to the south of Nablus. Fathi Hamdan, a farmer, said on Wednesday that Jewish settlers from the Tafuh settlement started the blaze that destroyed more than 300 olive trees owned by [...]

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Women ‘detained in Al Khalil after settlers raid homes’

Al Qassam Website 07-05-2012,10:03  Al Qassam website- al Khalil- A Palestinian woman was detained in the city of Al Khalil (Hebron) on Sunday after Israeli settlers raided her house, locals said. A group of extremist settlers from a nearby settlement entered several homes along Shuhada street in the center of town, residents said. Jamila Hassan [...]

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Jewish settlers sneak into Aqsa mosque

[ PIC 06/05/2012 - 11:51 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Jewish settlers sneaked into the Aqsa mosque on Sunday morning and offered rituals on the eve of calls for breaking into the holy site. Head of the information department at the Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage Mahmoud Abu Ata said in a press release [...]

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Jewish settlers poison Palestinian grapevines

ACTIONALERT & LIVE BLOG ▶ 3500 PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE | #PalHunger [ PIC 05/05/2012 - 11:14 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A group of Jewish settlers from Karmi Tzur settlement attacked Palestinian grapevines in Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, on Saturday. Locals said that the settlers sprayed toxic chemicals on the grape trees that [...]

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Jewish settlers wound Palestinian, damage fruit trees

[ PIC 03/05/2012 - 09:52 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers threw stones at a Palestinian vehicle near Etzion settlement complex on the Jerusalem-Al-Khalil road smashing its windshield and injuring its driver in his eyes. Eyewitnesses said that the settlers threw rocks at the truck driven by Ahmed Sabarne, from Beit Ummar village to the [...]

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Jewish settlers destroy 200 olive trees in Aqraba (Nablus)

[ PIC 02/05/2012 - 08:27 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers uprooted 200 olive trees near Aqraba village, Nablus, on Wednesday morning, local sources said. Hamza Deiriya, a member of the committee for the defense of Aqraba land, said that the settlers came from Etamar settlement and chopped off the trees planted in an area [...]

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Israeli authorities demolish well near Hebron

Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity | Water | Communication Maan News Agency | May 2, 2012 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities demolished a water well in a village east of Hebron on Wednesday, locals said. Officials accompanied by soldiers tore down the well belonging to Saeed Jaber in Baqaa village, [...]

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