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Beit Ummar: One Journalist Arrested, Two Injured
19 July 2010
Israeli soldiers arrested one journalist and injured two others at Beit Ummar’s Saturday protest calling for access to village land and the dismantling of nearby settlements. Beit Ummar is a Palestinian town located 11 kilometers northwest of Hebron. In the last years, the local Popular Commitee has organised weekly protests against the Israeli occupation and the theft of the agricultural land.
All photos by Kara Newhouse.
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- A teenager places Palestinian flags in the barbed wire fence that separates Palestinian fields from the Karmei Tsur settlement. Israel has built six illegal settlements on land confiscated from Beit Ummar.
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- Since 2006, Israel has annexed 600 dunums of the Beit Ummar’s land, requiring farmers to obtain security permits to visit and cultivate their fields. The villagers refuse to acquiesce to this demand.
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- An Israeli soldier emerges from a grove of plum trees to demand that villagers leave the land they own, calling it a “closed military zone.”
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- An Israeli soldier pulls a Danish demonstrator from the ground among the plum trees, just before his fellow soldiers begin detonating sound grenades to disperse the local and international activists.
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- A young boy looks on as Red Crescent medics lift an injured journalist into the ambulance. When the soldiers began firing tear gas, demonstrators and journalists ran back but did not leave the field. A sound grenade detonated at close range reportedly injured one journalist in the face, while another sustained injuries from physical assault by Israeli soldiers. Red Crescent medics treated both journalists.
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