Beit Ommar

Nine Palestinians killed in protests across West Bank

Maureen Clare Murphy 25 July 2014

An Israeli sniper killed Mohammad al-Araj on his seventeenth birthday. Read more about Nine Palestinians killed in protests across West Bank

Ali Abunimah 5 August 2013

“He should have been shot and killed already,” Israeli army-linked blogger says of Palestinian child arrested four times. Read more about Blog linked to Israeli army calls for murder of Palestinian children

Nora Barrows-Friedman 26 April 2013

Mousa Abu Maria talks about the Israeli army’s expanding arrests and detentions of children from Beit Ommar. Read more about Podcast: Youth in West Bank village under constant attacks by Israeli army, settlers

4 June 2012

A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine. Read more about The Month in Pictures: May 2012

Ali Abunimah 24 April 2012

A video shows heavily-armed Israeli soldiers seizing three children from their home in the middle of the night in the West Bank village of Beit Ommar, a horrible routine that is part of a systematic campaign against the village’s children. Read more about Video: Heavily-armed Israeli soldiers seize three children in West Bank night raid

Nora Barrows-Friedman 5 April 2012

A new report by Defense for Children International - Palestine section highlights the Israeli military’s routine arrests and detentions of children specifically in the village of Beit Ommar. Read more about Report on routine detention of children in Beit Ommar

Bekah Wolf 9 February 2012

Popular resistance leader Mousa Abu Maria shared an Israeli prison cell with Khader Adnan, now completing his 55th day of hunger strike. Abu Maria recalls Adnan’s leadership in organizing and educating prisoners in this interview for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Interview: Ex-prisoner reflects on friendship with Khader Adnan and his hunger strike for justice

Nora Barrows-Friedman 31 January 2012

During a demonstration on Tuesday to demand justice for the killing of 17-year-old Yousef Ikhlayl by Israeli settlers last year in Beit Ommar, Israeli soldiers beat protesters with clubs and attacked the crowd with sound bombs and tear gas. Read more about Protesters attacked, injured during commemoration for Palestinian teen murdered by Israeli settlers

Bekah Wolf 27 January 2012

One year after a 17-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli settlers as he farmed with his father in his West Bank village, his killers remain unpunished. Read more about Demanding justice for Yousef, a quiet boy killed by Israeli settlers

Emily Lawrence Beit Ommar 5 January 2012

A Palestinian teenager describes the physical and psychological torture he endured while imprisoned in an Israeli jail for throwing stones, and how his chronic illness went untreated in what his family say was a deliberate attempt by the prison authorities as further punishment. Read more about "Sometimes I feel my stomach will explode": Israel subjects teen prisoner to medical negligence