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Mondoweiss
February 9, 2018
Shukri's father, Ahmad Abu-Baker (colloquially pronounced Abu-Bachir), was born in 1930 in the village of Silwad, near Ramallah, in a part of Palestine that would later be known as the West Bank. Shukri recalls his father speaking little of his childhood, except in vague terms and isolated anecdotes.
Palestine News Network
February 7, 2018
The prisoners were arrested in Nablus. 15 were arrested, four of whom are still detained, and the rest were released. In Bethlehem, 11 Palestinians were arrested. From Jericho, IOF arrested three men from Silwad town near Ramallah, in addition to a mother or two children. The prisoner's club added thatÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
February 7, 2018
In Ramallah Governorate, in central West Bank, the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in Silwad town, northeast of the Ramallah city, and abducted Soheib Ayman Hamed, 20, Qussai Mahmoud Hamed and Abdul-Hamid Monir Hammad, 22. In Nablus, in northern West Bank, the soldiersÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
February 2, 2018
The NGO is “call[ing] upon the military to withdraw the order prohibiting the Palestinian owners from cultivating their land and to enforce the law with regard to Israeli trespassers who enter privately-owned Palestinian land.” “The residents of Silwad, Taybeh and Ein Yabrud will continue their struggle untilÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
January 28, 2018
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, two Palestinians from their homes in Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The army also invaded many areas in Tulkarem and Hebron, searched homes and stole gold. The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) said many army jeepsÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
January 16, 2018
The army said a rifle had been seized in Silwad town, east of Ramallah, during the raids. According to Palestinian figures, about 6,400 Palestinians are currently languishing in Israeli prisons, including dozens of women and 300 minors. The Israeli army frequently carries out sweeping arrest campaignsÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
December 22, 2017
Top photo: An Israeli soldier grabs a Palestinian during a march by landowners and activists attempting to plant olive tree saplings near the Israeli settlement Ofra, outside the Palestinian town of Silwad, near the west bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed).
B'Tselem
June 27, 2017
On 6 April 2017, Malek Hamed – a resident of the Palestinian town of Silwad – carried out a car-ramming attack at a hitchhiking station at the intersection near the settlement of Ofra, Ramallah District, killing Elhai Teharlev, a 20-year-old soldier, and wounding another soldier. Hamed was arrested at theÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
April 6, 2017
Shortly after the attack, Israeli forces raided Hamad's home in the village of Silwad near Ramallah. Israeli authorities also froze work permits belonging to Hamad's family members that allowed allowed them to work in Israel, Israeli media reported. The Hamas movement released statements praising theÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
August 26, 2016
Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Friday, a Palestinian man in Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reportedly after he approached a military roadblock and “refused to heed to the soldiers' demands to stop,” eyewitnesses confirmed he never posed any threat to the soldiers.
WAFA
December 31, 1999
In the Jordan Valley, Israeli forces conducted similar raids across Jericho district, detaining six Palestinians. Three others were detained in a similar overnight raid into Silwad town, northeast of Ramallah. Meanwhile, Israeli police detained a Palestinian after storming his home during clashes that eruptedÃÂ ...
AMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
August 30, 2017
... prisoner as well as the detaining of people from the near village of Deir Abu Mashal, the town of Silwad and the al-Jalazun refugee camp.
International Middle East Media Center
August 28, 2017
... Khalaf and Ali Ahmad Makhlouf, from the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, and Nimir Ali Hamed, from Silwad town, in Ramallah governorate.
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
August 16, 2017
The ruins of the Hamed family house in the occupied West Bank village of Silwad, one of several Palestinian homes destroyed by Israeli forcesÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
August 13, 2017
The Head of the municipality said that among those notified facilities is a private school located within Silwad Municipality. This school was builtÃÂ ...
Press TV
August 12, 2017
Two houses were destroyed in Deir Abu Mashaal village near Ramallah and another in the town of Silwad. Tel Aviv claims those residing in theÃÂ ...
Press TV
August 11, 2017
In pre-dawn attacks on Thursday, Israeli forces demolished three homes in the villages of Deir Abu Mashaal and one home in Silwad in theÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
August 10, 2017
According to the neighbourhood head in Silwad, located to the east of Ramallah, a Jordanian MP is involved. Abdul-Rahman Saleh added thatÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
August 10, 2017
The mayor of the Palestinian town of Silwad, Abd Al-Rahman Saleh, said in a telephone interview with the Jordanian Media Credibility MonitorÃÂ ...
B'Tselem
July 30, 2017
Israeli Border Police officer fires sponge round at Palestinian teen's head, then hits him in the head with a gun, Silwad, 10 March 2017.
B'Tselem
June 27, 2017
On 6 April 2017, Malek Hamed – a resident of the Palestinian town of Silwad – carried out a car-ramming attack at a hitchhiking station at theÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
December 31, 1999
In other news, Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Deir Abu Mashal and Silwad towns, in the central West Bank governorate ofÃÂ ...
Forward
March 2, 2017
Mandelblit told the court in a letter sent Wednesday that he will not represent the government in the appeal against the newly passed law made to the court by the Silwad Municipality, along with several other local Palestinian authorities. The state ...
Forward
March 2, 2017
Mandelblit told the court in a letter sent Wednesday that he will not represent the government in the appeal against the newly passed law made to the court by the Silwad Municipality, along with several other local Palestinian authorities. The state ...
The Tribune
February 23, 2017
Women of Kandi village walk more than four km everyday to fetch water for daily needs. File photo. Ajay Ramola. Tribune News Service.
Kantor Berita Kemanusiaan (Siaran Pers) (Blog)
February 19, 2017
JERUSALEM - Pasukan Israel kembali menahan sembilan warga Palestina dalam sebuah serangan militer menjelang fajar pada Minggu. Serangan itu dilakukan di Tepi Barat yang diduduki dan Yerusalem Timur.
Middle East Monitor
February 19, 2017
Israeli forces detained at least nine Palestinians in predawn military raids Sunday across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Yahoo News
February 10, 2017
Silwad (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Mariam Hamad remembers perfectly the day more than 20 years ago when her land was taken by Israelis to build the illegal settlement of Amona.
International Middle East Media Center
February 7, 2017
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded and ransacked homes in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Bilal Abdul-Rahim Hamed, and Jaber Mohammad Hamed, from Silwad town, east of Ramallah, andÃÂ ...
World Israel News
February 1, 2017
Palestinians from Silwad are now claiming ownership. In the petition, accepted by the court, Yesh Din claimed that the plots of land which the State had set aside to construct alternative housing for the residents of Amona consisted of privately owned ...
The Jewish Voice
January 31, 2017
But last week, the Supreme Court issued a restraining order to block government construction in the three area plots intended for evacuated Amona residents because Palestinians from the nearby town of Silwad said the plots of land are privately owned.
TBO.com
January 24, 2017
He has talked about requiring allies Japan and South Korea to pay more for U.S.SILWAD, West Bank (AP) - High school student Hamza Hamad spent 10 months in an Israeli jail for alleged links to the Islamic militant Hamas group, but was never chargedÃÂ ...
Montana Standard
January 24, 2017
In this Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 photo, Palestinian Hamza Hamad,16, walks with his horse at his home, in the village of Silwad, east of the West Bank city of Ramallah. High school student Hamza Hamad spent 10 months in an Israeli jail for alleged links ...
Hutchinson News
January 10, 2017
In this Monday, Jan. 1, 2017 photo, mayor of the Palestinian village of Silwad Abdulrahman Saleh shows on a map land held by the Jewish settlement of Amona, an unauthorized outpost in the West Bank, near the village of Silwad, east of the West Bank ...
Bismarck Tribune
January 9, 2017
In this Monday, Jan. 1, 2017 photo, Maryam Abdel-Kareem, 82-year-old Palestinian, points to land held by the Jewish settlement of Amona, an unauthorized outpost in the West Bank, near the village of Silwad, east of the West Bank city Ramallah.
Stuff.co.nz
January 9, 2017
A general view shows the Jewish settlers' outpost of Amona, front, and the Palestinian village of Silwad in the background, in the West Bank.
Alternative Information Center (AIC)
January 3, 2017
Finally, in Silwad village near Ramallah, five people were arrested. Palestinian news commentators are calling the arrests the largest Israeli arrest campaign in months.
Breaking Israel News
December 18, 2016
Gibor, who describes those empty homes as "white elephants," met in Silwad a man in his 70's named Salah, who sat with him over a cup of coffee and revealed that he's been living in Puerto Rico for 52 years.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
December 16, 2016
... without Israeli state authorisation and which Israel's high court ruled must be evacuated and demolished by the end of the year as it is built on privately-owned Palestinian land, October 20, 2016.
International Middle East Media Center
December 16, 2016
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday evening, a Palestinian child in Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
Palestine News Network
December 14, 2016
This Israeli announcement is a temporary change for 8 months, to be applied on the lands of Silwad village (basin no. 17, 137, 141), as well as land in the Ein-Yabrood village, basin no.
International Middle East Media Center
December 6, 2016
On Monday at night, the soldiers invaded a home, owned by Yasser Mizher, in the northern part of Silwad town, northeast of Ramallah, and turned it into a military post and a monitoring tower.
Latin American Herald Tribune
November 18, 2016
SILWAD/AMONA - Ibrahim Jacoub was recently recognized by the Israeli High Court as one of the legitimate Palestinian owners of the land now occupied by the illegal settlement Amona.
Il Post
November 17, 2016
... la capitale amministrativa dello stato palestinese. Fu fondato da un gruppo di giovani abitanti di Ofra, una colonia fondata nel 1975, che occuparono unilateralmente un terreno privato sotto la giurisdizione di Silwad, un paese palestinese di ...
Jordan Times
November 17, 2016
The settlement of Amona is built on land belonging to the Palestinian Hamad family of Silwad (near Ramallah). This is one of the few cases in which the courts have ruled in favour of the Palestinian landowners and has refused Israeli government and ...
International Middle East Media Center
November 13, 2016
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the town of Silwad, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, searched homes and kidnapped a Palestinian teen.
International Middle East Media Center
November 6, 2016
In addition, the soldiers invaded Silwad town, northeast of Ramallah, searched many homes and kidnapped one Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Abdul-Hamid Hamed.
Middle East Monitor
November 6, 2016
Also in the southern West Bank, Mahmoud Jamal Sabbah,18, was detained from the Bethlehem area village of Tuqu, while locals from the Ramallah area village of Silwad reported that Muhammad Abd al-Hamid al-Shawarib was detained by Israeli forcesÃÂ ...
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