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Settlers attack olive harvesters, Israeli volunteers in West Bank village
Masked settlers uproot olive trees, set groves ablaze, and beat several Israeli volunteers with stones and metal rods in the West Bank village of Burin. Masked men from the settlement of Yitzhar wielding metal rods and stones attacked volunteers from Rabbis for Human Rights, a human rights organization based in Israel, while they were picking…
By
Oren Ziv
October 16, 2019
WATCH: Settlers attack Palestinian school, harass students
Settlers are caught on video throwing stones at a Palestinian school in Burin, and a settlement security guard fires his gun into the air. But the soldiers who arrive on the scene take no action against the attackers. By Yael Marom School children in the West Bank village of Burin were harassed and attacked by…
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April 26, 2017
WATCH: Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian for filming them
Soldiers arrest a Palestinian man before shooting his brother in the knee with a rubber bullet. Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian volunteer with an Israeli human rights organization before shooting his brother in the knee with a rubber bullet earlier this month. The incident took place on February 10 in the West Bank village of…
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Edo Konrad
February 20, 2017
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PHOTOS: Israeli army blocks main roads to Palestinian villages
Photos and reporting by Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org The Israeli army has blocked off with with concrete cubes, boulders and dirt seven main access roads to Palestinian villages in the Nablus area of the West Bank in recent days. The roadblocks unmanned, and entirely block Palestinian residents from using their vehicles on the main roads leading in and out of their…
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Activestills
September 6, 2016
WATCH: Settlers hurl burning tires, boulders at Palestinians
Hundreds of settlers launch dozens of attacks against Palestinians across the West Bank, in the wake of two Palestinian attacks that left four Israelis dead. Rights groups demand the army intervene to protect Palestinians from settler violence. Israeli settlers carried out dozens of violent attacks across the West Bank over the past two days in…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
October 4, 2015
PHOTOS: Hundreds mourn Palestinian teen shot by Israeli army
Photos and text: Ahmad al-Bazz / Activestills.org Hundreds of Palestinians participated today in the funeral of 19-year-old Ahmed Najjar, who was shot to death by the Israeli army on Saturday outside village of Burin, near Nablus. The army claimed that Najjar was about to throw a molotov cocktail at passing vehicles near the village. Medical sources…
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Activestills
February 1, 2015
IDF soldiers fire tear gas at West Bank school
Dozens of students suffer from tear gas inhalation; army claims stone-throwing youth fled into the school. Israeli soldiers fired large quantities of tear gas into the yard of a high school in the Palestinian village of Burin, near Nablus on Monday. According to Rabbis for Human Rights, the incident took place during the morning roll…
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Haggai Matar
December 15, 2014
PHOTOS: Settlers assault Palestinian NGO worker in northern West Bank
Settlers attacked a Palestinian NGO worker in the West Bank village of Burin on Sunday. According to Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organization that provides legal assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank, the settlers attacked Munir Kadus (a Yesh Din investigator) as he was accompanying a group of Palestinians who were paving a…
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Edo Konrad
March 23, 2014
Settler violence: It comes with the territory
Unlike any other aspect of the occupation, settler violence is something nobody outside the radical fringe in Israel will defend. This, alone, they’ll denounce. And yet, nobody — in Israel or internationally — has found the political will to put a stop to the decades-long phenomenon, even when the victims are U.S. citizens. By Larry Derfner…
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Larry Derfner
January 21, 2014
WATCH: Settlers hurl rocks at Palestinians in the presence of IDF soldiers
IDF soldiers do not use any crowd dispersal means to stop settlers throwing stones toward Palestinians in the West Bank village of Burin; several reportedly injured. Over 20 masked settlers armed with slingshots invaded the West Bank village of Burin on Tuesday afternoon, a field worker from human rights organization Yesh Din reported. The settlers,…
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Mairav Zonszein
January 14, 2014
Whitewashing the settlers’ police force
Israeli police in the West Bank manage to avoid carrying out the most basic of investigative actions – even while holding in custody two suspects caught red-handed. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz On July 26, 2010, Israeli civilians – some of whom were seen coming from the direction of the settlements of Yizhar…
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December 29, 2013
While you were sleeping: The systematic terrorization of Burin
Israeli civilians terrorize the village of Burin; as usual, they are aided by the strongest army in the Middle East. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz To paraphrase Tolstoy, every village in the West Bank is miserable in its own way. The curse of Burin, in the Nablus region, is that it neighbors two…
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December 23, 2013
When maintaining law and order means assaulting sheep
As part of the campaign of quiet terrorism against Palestinians, IDF soldiers assault sheep with stun grenades. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz One day in September, Walid Said Muhammad ‘Id, a resident of Burin – a village unfortunately surrounded by settlements and outposts, whose inhabitants as a result are frequently attacked by settlers…
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+972 Magazine
October 31, 2013
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