Settlers from Chavat Maon came to Tuwana, broke windows and attacked the people there. The Palestinian residents were furious and the situation was only made worse when the army arrived and refused to go after the settlers. Instead, they stood and guarded the Palestinians. A few minutes later three settlers from Chavat Maon tried again to enter Tuwana. This created further tension. Soon afterwards the army decided to start pushing the Palestinians and left-wing activists backwards. When the latter shouted at them the ...Saturday, April 24 2010 Escorting shepherds, Planting and Demonstrating in Hebron Escorting shepherds in the area of Mufakkara, and on the land of Abu Kbita in the area of Yatir was successful. Other groups of activists escorted farmers in a number of places around Susya. We returned to plant on the land of the Moor family, where settlers plowed a while ago, and where settlers had uprooted the trees we planted last week (April 17). Three other groups assisted in the harvest work near the Susya junction, where there are neighboring settlements and the road that ...
Saturday, April 17 2010 Escorting Shepherds and Farmers in Susya and Umm Zeitune Escorting shepherds in Umm Zeitune: A short time after the activists arrived to help, a force of soldiers arrived to expel the shepherds and their escorts through the use of violence. Three activists were arrested, and then released after a number of hours. Escorting farmers: Another group of activists assisted the Moor family to plant olive trees on their land, in the area of Susya where settlers have recently squatted and began to plow. Although settlers from Susya arrived and tried to prevent the ...
Saturday, March 27 2010 Shepherds accompaniment in Umm Zeitune Saturday 27.3.2010 More grazing in Umm Zeitune, this time in pouring rain which lasted for several hours. Again the head of the settler security force in Maon sent soldiers to evict the shepherds from their lands and again our activists blocked their way and prevented them from reaching the shepherds and their flocks. Gedalia, the head of the settler security force in Maon, tried to catch a goat in order to make its owner come to him, but the activists immediately rescued the goat and continued to accompany the shepherds. The ...
Saturday, March 20 2010 Shepherds accompaniment – Umm Zeitune Saturday 20.3.2010 We accompanied shepherds from Umm Zeitune in the south Hebron hills. After some two hours of peaceful grazing the head of the settler security force in Maon sent a group of soldiers to evict the shepherds. Our activists blocked their way and stopped them from reaching the shepherds and the flocks. Out of frustration one of the soldiers tried to take a sheep hostage in order to force the shepherds to approach him, but immediately the activists rescued the sheep. As this didn’t work the soldiers tried to catch ...
Saturday, March 13 2010 Shepherds Accompment in Umm Zeitune and Mufakkara
For many weeks the army had prevented grazing in the area of Umm Zeitune, each time with different and changing excuses, always using the “closed military zone order”, whose legality is doubtful and whose malice is obvious. This time we arrived in a large group determined to ensure grazing in this area where it had always been allowed, with no disturbance, over all the previous years.
Shortly after we arrived and met the shepherds and their flocks, so did the army. The soldiers tried to take no notice of our presence ...Saturday, January 23 2010 Escorting shepherds and settler violence at Hill 18
In the morning we left to escort shepherds in South Mount Hebron. One group escorted shepherds from Mufkarah to graze near Avigail (a settler outpost). The escort passed without any special incident, apart from an army patrol that issued several warnings and then left the area.
A second group escorted shepherds from Tuba and Metala in the area of Um-Zeituna next to the settlement of Maoz.
Soldiers – called to the area ...Saturday, January 16 2010 Shepherd accompaniment in the South Mt Hebron
Activists set out to accompany shepherds in Mufak’ra, Umm Zeituna and Sala.
In Umm Zeituna and Sala, the grazing went smoothly. The shepherds pointed out that they wouldn’t have dared graze adjacent to Ma’on without our presence, fearing for settler attacks.
In Mufak’ra we accompanied Fadel and his family while their sheep grazed in the area near their house. These fields are located a short distance from the illegal outpost of Avigail, and because of past settler attacks, the family fears using the fields without accompaniment. A small group of activists arrived ...
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