Beitillu Village: Beitillu is a village located to the northwest of Ramallah, 19 km from the city. Beitillu is bordered to the east by Birzeit and the farm village, Almazra'a and to the west by the Green Line. To the north it’s bordered by Nabi Saleh and to the south by Ras Karkar and Al-Janbeh. […]
Tag: Destruction of Land
STW holds protest against Shafi Shomron waste dump in Sabastiya
Last Friday, March 8th, Stop the Wall organized a demonstration in cooperation with the local organizations in Sabastiya and in Salfit district to protest against the Shafi Shomron settlement. Shafi Shomron has been making life impossible to the villagers in innumerous aspects. The protesters were repressed by the occupation forces, who shot tear gas and sounds bombs at […]
Call for action: Join this year’s Olive harvest!
Ten years ago, Israel started to build its apartheid Wall that effectively isolates much of the Palestinianolive groves and agricultural lands. The International court of Justice has declared the Wall illegal and defined the legal obligations of the international community to stop the Wall’s construction Last year the Israeli authorities announced to the United Nations their […]
IOF suppression of the weekly march of the residents of Ni’lin
During Israeli Occuaption Forces (IOF) suppression of the weekly march of the residents of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah, dozens of tear gas canisters were fired. The people of the town of Ni'lin said Friday prayers on their land near the Apartheid Wall and during the Friday sermon the khatib, or person delivering the […]
Settlers uprooted dozens of trees in Beit Ummar Village
For the second time in 24 hours settlers from «Bat Ayin» has uprooted dozens of trees, grape, almond and olive trees in the farmland owned by Hammad Al Salaeibi (Abu Samar). This happened in the area of Wadi Alreesh in Beit Ummar Village. When Abu Samer went to his land he was shocked to […]
The occupation forces uprooted 30 olive trees in Qusra Village
17-7-2012 This morning, the occupation forces uprooted and confiscated 30 olive trees from the land of Mohammad and Saqer Shihadeh in the village Qusra. Fath Allah Mahmoud got a notice to stop working on his land which is close to the «Majdolim» settlement. Qusra is located in the south of Nablus distirct. The settelment «Majdolim» […]
Weekly Report 25.5.12
Nabi Saleh: The information office of the popular committee in Nabi Saleh reported that 3 children, Mahmoud Shaker al-Tamimi (14 years), and Islam al-Tamimi (16 years), and Muhammad Bilal al-Tamimi (11 years), were wounded by rubber coated bullets during the weekly demonstration against land theft. Dozens of other Palestinian and international activists suffered from tear […]
Weekly Report – 12.5.12
Bil'in: Around 100 protesters gathered to protest the colonial apartheid Wall in Bil’in and show support for the ongoing hunger strike in Israeli jails. In response dozens of tear gas canisters and flash-bang grenades were launched into the crowd, setting fire to many acres of land and more than 20 olive trees. Some individuals responded by […]
Qusra looses more land to ever expanding settlements
Sunday, April 29, a group of settlers bulldozed agricultural lands belonging to the village of Qusra, in Nablus district. In the morning hours, the settlers went to the piece of land, which is even located far from the settlements surrounding the village but had been targeted before by the settlers. Many times, the area […]
Wadi Qana: 1000 trees closer to the total destruction of an idyllic valley
On Thursday April 27, the occupation forces handed notices to some farmers in Wadi Qana [Valley of Qana] that informed them the military would cut more than 1000 trees. Wadi Qana is located close to Deir Istiya in Salfit district and one of the spots of the West Bank that is first ethnically cleansed from […]