Weekly Update- Hebron 28/04/09

Youth Against Settlements is a non-partisan youth group in Hebron fighting against the  Israeli Occupation in the city  through non-violent popular struggle. We will be posting a weekly update of the happenings our city.  Learn more about us here.

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19.04.09 Sunday
17:00 Settlers from Beit Hadasah threw stones towards Abu Munshar's shop after he discovered that they opened the doors of his storehouse. Abu Munshar told the soldier who was in the area , but the soldier did nothing to stop the settlers. 10 min later Abu Munshar saw adult settlers who were trying to take the Storehouse doors , but they escaped when they saw him .

20.04.09 Monday

12:00 The settlers are working to build another wooden tent near Kharsena Settlement in a private Palestinians land. It is called Hill 26. The army is protecting the settlers who are building Illegally in the area.

21.04.09 Tuesday
14:30 The police and the Army prevented Aljazeera English crew to go in to Hani Abu Haikal's House and interview him about  life near the settlement.

22.04.09 Wednesday

Settlers from Tell-Rumeida Settlement built a concrete wall in Abu Arab's land.  Abu Arab called the police , the police answered him that they don’t know the land owner in spite of the legal documents and the complaints which the owner of the land gave the police.

Settlers from Kharseena settlement went in Khaleefa Daana’s Land which is in the settlement security buffer zone and which the settlers are not allowed to get according to the Israeli law.
The settlers threw stones toward Khaleef’s house


23.04.09 Thursday

Settler from Tell –Rumeida settlement went in Abu Arab land again .

Army searched many Palestinians house and they counted the families numbers and took photos for the houses. They said was as a kind of a survey

24.04.09 Friday

The settlers tried to block "Breaking the silence tour" in Tell-Rumeida ,they said many bad words to the delegation

Army repeat the survey in Tell-Rumeida and went to many Palestinian’s houses Tell- Rumeida

25.04.09 Saturday
12:00 The police declared the land where the settlers built a new outpost as a close military Zone and they forced the Palestinians and Israeli demonstrators to leave the area. The settlers left for 2 hours but they came back with 2 army Jeeps.