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Beit Ommar Settlement Protest 12/18/2010

by tangle (tanglealso [at] gmail.com)
Beit Ommar, nestled between Bethlehem and Hebron, currently has six settlements surrounding the southern West Bank village. Since 2006 there has been a weekly demonstration in Beit Ommar to protest the cutting of (worker's) trees and building of the security fence.
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The picture above is of a minaret of the main mosque in Beit Ommar.

The weekly Beit Ommar demos are organised by Palestine Solidarity Project: http://palestinesolidarityproject.org
§Beit Ommar Habibti
by tangle
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§International activists, shebabs gather
by tangle
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Demonstrators line up to begin the weekly peaceful march.
§Free Palestine
by tangle
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§March starts down the road
by tangle
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All but one room of the house on the right has been confiscated by IDF soldiers.
§occupied home
by tangle
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A Beit Ommar house along the demonstrator's path where a Palestinian family has been pushed into a single room in their own house by soldiers.
§Karmei Tsur settlement
by tangle
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settlement we were demonstrating against.
§Demonstration
by tangle
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IDF, demonstrators, the usual tear gas.
§Palestinian Solidarity Project
by tangle
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PSP leader and shebab flee from tear gas
§mementos
by tangle
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Teargas canister from today's demo and an Indybay sticker
§The march returns
by tangle
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§watchtower
by tangle
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Several hundred residents from Beit Ommar are currently political prisoners in Israeli prisons, and the village is subjected to late-night raids by Israeli forces almost every night. The main road leading in to the village has a permanent watchtower guarded by the Israeli military.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/05/18668375.php
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/219356-Palestine-Beit-Ommar-returns-to-its-roots
§mosque
by tangle
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Mousa explains that, four days prior to the protest, the IDF came to state that part of this 800 year old mosque would be used as a synagogue. Mousa told us that the IDF were told that they would have a large outcry were this to be enforced, and the IDF has not yet returned to the mosque.
§Sheep herder of Beit Ommar village
by tangle
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Beit Ommar has approximately 17,000 residents, many of whom make their living as farmers.
§video from Beit Ommar
by dave id
Beit Ommar Protest Against Karmei Tsur Settlement, West Bank, Palestine, 12/18/10: video
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/24/18667461.php

Settlers and IDF Attempt to Steal Old Village Mosque, Beit Ommar, West Bank, Palestine, 12/18/10: video
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/24/18667473.php

Interview with Mousa Abu Maria, Beit Ommar, West Bank, Palestine, 12/18/10: video
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/24/18667481.php
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