Tag Archives: settlements

Saturday, October 18, 2014 – 11:21 Inter Press Service RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 18 (IPS) – Thirty-year-old Naifa Youssef and 50 other members of her Bedouin community live a precarious life, eking out a hand-to-mouth existence alongside the main road which links Jerusalem with the Dead Sea and the ancient …

This article originally appeared in SF Gate – May 8, 2014 [Photo by Majdi Mohammed, AP] By Karin Laub West Bank (AP) — Over the course of just three weeks, Israeli forces destroyed Suleiman Qaed’s small cinderblock house and the trailer home an aid group sent him as a replacement. …

Photo by Katja Magnusson – Swedish Radio The following is a Swedish Radio piece, on the recent demolition of EU-funded temporary structures on E-1 and subsequent discussions as to whether to call for compensation from Israel.  Originally aired on Sveriges Radio – April 16, 2014 By Katja Magnusson Enligt FN:s organ för palestinska …

Philip Weiss on September 23, 2013 Video: A tour of a demolished Bedouin village in E1 in the Occupied West Bank A week ago today I visited E1, a mountainous patch of land east of Jerusalem that is famous because the Israelis have designated it for more settlements that will further fragment the West Bank …