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, May 22 2010 Farewell picnic (temporary) for Ezra Nawi
By: Neve Gordon
Picnics, like almost everything else in Israel, are often political. Oz Shelach underscores this point in his collection of short stories, Picnic Grounds, where he describes how a history professor takes his family on a picnic in the pine forest near Givat Shaul, a Jerusalem neighbourhood.
The professor teaches his son some of the camping skills he learned while serving in the Israeli military, using old stones to block the wind and to protect the newly lit fire. The stones, we are told, are the remains of a village known ...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, November 7 2009 Planting, herding and settler violence in Umm al-Khir Today 13 Ta’ayush activists set out to the South Hebron Hills. One group accompanied shepherds in the area of the outpost of Avigail. The herding went quietly and upon completion the activists visited Umm al-Khir, where they helped in renovating a gravel road. Most of the activists went to Susia. The planting began quietly but was delayed by a technical problem with the tractor. At this point an army jeep arrived from the direction of the settlement. Four reserve soldiers exited their polite commander asked us what we were doing there ...
Saturday, October 3 2009 Activities in Tuwani & Susya
On Saturday morning we went to work with the residents of Tuwani in south Mount Hebron. The settlers from neighboring Ma’on invaded the valley which lies between them and Tuwani and planted grape vines in the land owned by the Palestinians. After the settlers took over the land de facto, the military Civil Administration declared all the land which they planted as belonging to them and the remaining land as belonging to Tuwani (even though all of the land in the area is owned by Tuwani). However, when the Civil ...Wednesday, September 9 2009 Settlers violence in Susya This morning, Ta’ayush activists escorting Palestinian farmers in Khirbet Safa received a message about settlers concentrated in the area of Susya because of the expected evacuation today of the illegal outpost Givat HaDegel nearby. Due to the concern about acts of revenge by settlers toward local Palestinians, two Ta’ayush activists went to the area. One the way, it became evident that our worry was justified. A group of 12 settlers had come to the tents of the Harani and Nawajeh families. The settlers threw rocks, hit men and women, and ...
Saturday, June 6 2009 Susya and Khirbet Safa
By David Shulman
It never, and I mean never, rains in the south Hebron hills in June. Days are counted on a simple continuum of hot-hotter-hottest. But here I am standing in the steep road at Khirbet Safa at 9:30 in the morning under an almost cloudless sky, and raindrops are splattering against my skin. It’s no storm, but still a kind of miracle. I put it down to Obama’s visit to Cairo this week and to his speech which—probably for the first time in decades from an American president—spoke the ...
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