Mitzpeh Yair

A Border Policeman looks on as a six-year-old Palestinian and a settler child share a moving moment. Almost. (screenshot: YouTube)

WATCH: After handshake, settler child throws stone at six-year-old Palestinian

One activist captures what was almost a moving moment between a six-year-old Palestinian and a settler child in the occupied south Hebron Hills. Almost. In a video filmed by Amir Bitan, an Israeli Ta’ayush activist, Thamer Ibrahim Alayan, a 6-year-old Palestinian child from the Umm al Ara’is village in the South Hebron Hills is seen…

By Mairav Zonszein October 5, 2013

Palestinian resident of West Bank being arrested (Ta'ayush activist)

IDF evicts Palestinians from their land, arrests 15, including mother with baby

The Israeli army arrested 10 Palestinians and five Israelis in the South Hebron Hills today (Saturday) while they were trying to reach Palestinian-owned land next to the illegal outpost called Mitzpeh Yair, in the southern West Bank. According to Guy, an Israeli Ta’ayush activist who filmed the video below, the Awwad family from Umm al Ara’is…

By Mairav Zonszein January 19, 2013

Activists film settlers attacking Palestinians in West Bank

In the second such incident in three days, IDF soldiers are idle as settlers exert force and damage property on local Palestinian population in the West Bank. Soldiers did not bother to intervene on Monday when a very angry settler violently confronted Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills. Israeli Ta’ayush activists accompanied Palestinians to harvest…

By Mairav Zonszein May 22, 2012

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Israeli Soldiers Guard Settlers at an Illegal Outpost near Hebron. Photo: Mairav Zonszein)

It’s time for an international force in the West Bank

Since the IDF cannot and will not protect Palestinians from settlers, it’s time to turn over the West Bank to an international force. An incident in the village of Asira Al-Qibiliya drew media attention on Saturday, since it was captured on B’Tselem’s cameras. A group of Yitzhar settlers tried to raid the village, set its…

By Yossi Gurvitz May 22, 2012

Watch: a sole settler deprives an entire community of water

A visit by Ta’ayush activists to the hills near Bir el Eid turns into a tug-of-war with a local settler On Saturday, a lone settler from the illegal outpost of Mitzpeh Yair prevented water access to Palestinians living in Bir el Eid. This is not the first time this has happened. The specific water cistern…

By Mairav Zonszein November 24, 2010