In April 2005, a group of internationals took up residence in a house in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron, the West Bank, recording and intervening in incidents of Israeli settler violence. Tel Rumeida's illegal settlers are notorious for their violence, and the Tel Rumeida Project has recorded over 100 incidents of settler violence in five months. Chelli Stanley and John Harmer of the Tel Rumeida Project, will be speaking and presenting their film about Israeli settler violence, in Olympia this Monday and Wednesday:

4/24 @ TESC- 2PM Sem II A1105

4/26 @ Traditions Fair Trade (300 5th Street, Downtown) - 7PM

The Tel Rumeida project (www.telrumeidaproject.org) was formed in May 2005 as a response to increased settler violence in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeida, Hebron, in the West Bank. Tel Rumeida is a small Palestinian neighborhood widely-acknowledged as housing the most violent and extremist faction of the Israeli settler movement. Palestinian families who live directly next to these settlers are often virtual prisoners in their homes, subject to the settlers' violent attacks and destruction of property.

In just five months, members of the Tel Rumeida Project recorded more than 120 settler attacks in the small neighborhood. Yet from the moment internationals began living in Tel Rumeida, the Israeli army and Kiryat Arba police have tried to remove the international human rights presence from the neighborhood by using a variety of means, including constant intimidation, threats, violence, false charges, arrests, and deportation. When internationals call the security forces for assistance while settlers are attacking them or Palestinians, the Kiryat Arba police and IDF habitually threaten, assault, arrest, and harass the members of the Tel Rumeida Project.

Tel Rumeida Project members Chelli Stanley and John Harmer will speak about the current situation in Tel Rumeida and present documentary footage of settler attacks filmed in the neighborhood.

-Lee
SESAME Coordinator
360-867-6781
http://academic.evergreen.edu/groups/sesame