Saturday, June 15 2013 Settler from Otniel attacking shepherds flocks and activists Today, Umm Al Amad lands, near the settlement of Otniel. A settler armed with a gun invades private Palestinian lands, attacks a shpherd and activists and scares away the flock. And all in front of the soldiers who do not stop him, and finally shake his hand.
Saturday, June 8 2013 Weekly activity report Ta’ayush activists spent the Saturday (as any Saturday) in several locations of the South Hebron hills region, and cooperated with local Palestinians. On the lands of the village of Um el Amad, activists accompanied local shepherds and their flocks of goats and sheep, while they went grazing near the settlement of Otni’el. This time the military nor the settlers did not disrupt the shepherds. The shepherds noticed that earlier that week a new invasion into a different part of their lands that started last January, was extended further and was ...
Sunday, April 28 2013 IDF Major kicks a sheep, Umm Al Amad Watch the film made by Guy
Saturday, April 27 2013 Umm al-‘Amad by David Shulman
Today we have the New Rules. In some respects they’re rather like the Old Rules. The aim and sole rationale remain the same: dispossession, expulsion, taking more land. The army has, it seems, given up on its favorite device of declaring Closed Military Zones, week after week; perhaps the outright illegality of this practice ended up causing them too many problems in court. Instead, the soldiers simply chase us—Palestinian shepherds, farmers, Israeli activists—physically away, pushing, shoving, threatening, beating. They also have decided they won’t allow us to document their crimes ...Saturday, April 27 2013 Israeli soldier threatening, cursing and using racist expressions towards shepherds and activists Watch the film made by Taayush activst Guy, showing an Israeli soldier today near the settlement of Otniel, threatening, shouting, cursing and using racist expressions towards Palestinian shepherds from the village of Umm Al Amad and Ta’ayush Activists. Translation of some of the expressions used by the soldier: “Watch out! Shut up, I’ll let you have one in the head! Get out of here, you asshole! You guys are worse than Arabs! assholes! You help Arabs!”
Saturday, April 20 2013 Illegal evacuation and disturbing of legal photographing in Umm Al Amad Watch the film made by Ta’ayush activists
Wednesday, April 3 2013 Israeli activists detained for filming by Mairav Zonszein In the video below (filmed by an Israeli Ta’ayush activist on Monday April 1 and subtitled quickly by yours truly) a policeman approaches Israeli activists who regularly go to the South Hebron Hills (he knows all their names already) and informs them they are being detained. For what? For filming illegal construction at an illegal outpost in the area called Avigayil on a different day. That’s right. This was not an April Fool’s joke, but the way the law is actually being enforced by Israeli authorities in the West Bank. ...
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