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November 8, 2015
Friends, the last month has been a
morbid display of Israeli force in
the Occupied Palestinian
Territories. The number of killings,
injuries, and arrests of
Palestinians is rising so rapidly
that it is becoming increasingly
difficult to clarify one
extrajudicial execution from
another.
Two of these
murders
of unarmed youth
occurred
directly in front
of our apartment
in Tel Rumeida. In spite of
escalating violence and amid a
Zionist media storm, Palestinian
resilience and resistance continues.
Palestinians and international
solidarity activists are being
increasingly targeted in our work of
supporting this resistance. Explicit
aggression towards Palestinians and
internationals in Hebron (Al-Khalil)
has increased drastically. Threats,
intimidation, verbal and physical
abuse by soldiers and illegal
settlers has become
a daily
occurrence in our work.
On the 2nd of November one of our
volunteers was taken from his home,
assaulted and arrested. The
following day, two international
activists were arrested while
monitoring human rights abuses
against school children at the
Shuhada street checkpoint. That
afternoon, the rest of our team was
evicted from our Hebron residence by
Israeli forces, without the
agreement of the landlord, under
threat of arrest. This was carried
out on the pretense that we had not
been registered as residents during
recent procedures
surrounding the recurrent Closed
Military Zone orders.
A concerted effort is being made to
intimidate and drive out all
international presence from Hebron.
In addition, the impunity of illegal
settlers and Israeli forces has
created conditions conducive to more
violence and attacks throughout the
West Bank. Within the past month,
there have been
several attacks
on
internationals working in the
northern region of Nablus. While
acting as a protective presence
accompanying olive farmers during
the harvest period, several of our
volunteers were
attacked
by illegal settlers just one week
ago.
We are receiving increasing requests
by schools, farmers, villagers and
residents abutting settlements for
accompaniment and monitoring.
In Gaza,
we continue our work of recording
atrocities and the resilience of the
Palestinian population, in practical
solidarity work on the ground.
We
maintain that our presence
throughout the occupied territories
is both lawful and more essential
than ever.
To continue our work, we need help.
WE NEED PEOPLE AND WE NEED MONEY! As
you might imagine, our
communications, travel, and legal
costs are sky-rocketing during this
tense time. We anticipate an
increasing need for funding to both
maintain our presence here and to
address our need for legal
representation, both for our
Palestinian contacts and those of us
coming from abroad. We welcome new
volunteers, and we welcome financial
support in whatever capacity it can
be offered.
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