AN update: the person who got hit with a live bullet at Beit Ummar on friday had to have his leg amputeted at the knee, I heard today. The bullet was pparently a 'dum dum' bullet, a kind with a hollow tip which causes it to explode from the pressure of impact to it explodes inside the person causing maximum damage ( Read more... )

The funeral proccession


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Here is our report from today, a little editorial afterwards ( Read more... )

Settlers Rain Stones and Urine on Palestinian Home and Street ( Read more... )

today I met a very nice woman called Nida from the Palestinian Centre for Peace and Democracy. They run workshops, trainings and meetings for young people (actually 17-40 but mostly under 30), where they try to explore issues of working together, womens and human rights, education (eg trainings for teachers about how to have a 2-way method with ( Read more... )

The day before yesterday, two young men from Beit Ummar, a village on the boundary of Hebron and Bethlehem areas, entered Kfar Etzion settlement dressed as Israeli soldiers and started to attack settlers with knives. Both of them were killed inside the settlement. They did not kill any settlers before being killed themselves ( Read more... )

Hey, the situation in Gaza is really a crisis now. Israel is strangling the place and due to severe movement restrictions (few Palestinians allowed out and few internationals or Israelis allowed in) information from there is really limited in its ability to reach the world. ppl here in W. Bank are really worried, with daily demos to 'end the siege ( Read more... )

this is from last week - click on it to enlarge it and see properly the structures they built


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This is an anecdote I forgot, that I heard during the meeting for families in Tel Rumeida who have cameras from B'tselem to record problems with settlers or soldiers ( Read more... )