UPDATE WITH VIDEO: 13 year-old boy shot at by settlers, tortured by soldiers, denied medical attention

The young Qaryut boy here has his entire right leg in a cast, expecting a potential surgery.

19th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Qaryut, Occupied Palestine

UPDATED: The 13-year-old Qaryut boy attacked by settlers on 16 May completed an operation on his lower leg and foot on Friday and has since been released to recover at home. He also provided a full account of his attack and the time he spent in an Israeli jeep untreated and tortured for information he neither had nor could speak of due to the pain from his untreated injury.

The boy said he was alone on his land near the illegal settlement of Eli when he was attacked. His … Continue reading

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Photo Essay: Sabastiya remembers 65 years of the Nakba

In community remembrance of the Nakbah, Sabastiya villagers observed 15-minutes of a full light-out. Instead, villagers gathered in the village center, a municipal park area, to remember Palestinian displacement from 1948 Palestinian villages. [Photo by Sabastiya local]

22th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Sabastiya, Occupied Palestine
In community remembrance of the Nakba, Sabastiya villagers observed 15 minutes of a full lights-out.

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Prelude to land theft: a livelihood trashed in Aqraba

The bulldozer came in very early so as to escape attention

21st May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Aqraba, Occupied Palestine

Seven hundred olive trees were uprooted first thing in the morning of 16th May while a bulldozer got to work destroying the farmer’s concrete water storage facility and surrounding dry stone walls and fences in Aqraba. The Israeli army, who did some of the damage along with specially contracted workers, has since returned to check that the ground has not been replanted.

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UPDATE: Woman arrested in Hebron is accused of stone throwing by a settler

Zleikha Muhtaseb being arrested from her home

19th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Khalil | Hebron, Occupied Palestine

UPDATE: Zleikha was released from custody at around midnight, on the condition that she reports back to the police station today.

During Zleikha’s interrogation, an Israeli settler was brought by the Police and asked, ‘is this the woman who threw stones at you?’ to which she replied ‘yes’. This fundamentally flawed method of identification further illustrates how far removed the Israeli military is from any credible system of justice.

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