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Journal: Revisiting Ni’lin after four years

Posted on: May 2, 2013
Journal: Revisiting Ni’lin after four years

2nd May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Ni’lin, Occupied Palestine

By Team Nablus

It’s been four years since I had visited and lived in Ni’lin and the decision to visit on Friday filled me simultaneously with excitement and longing but also dread. Four years ago I had supported the non violent resistance in Ni’lin as an ISM activist and had experienced the horror and oppression of the occupiers against such actions. Ni’lin’s demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall represented the Ni’lin population’s resilience. They would not let more land, that was the life blood of the community, be stolen.… Continue reading


Updated on May 2, 2013
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Residents of Qusra village on the road to recovery after attacks by settlers

Posted on: April 22, 2013
Helmi on 21st April - recpvering step by step

22nd April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Qusra, Occupied Palestine

By Team Nablus

Helmi on 21st April – recovering step by step

Helmi Abdul Azeez Hassan was shot with live ammunition by a settler on 23rd February at short range and came very close to death. He spent nine days unconscious before he woke up in hospital only to be interrogated and accused of throwing stones. Two months later, he sits down with his family and international activists and is happy as he talks of … Continue reading


Updated on May 21, 2013
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Two Brothers Resistance To The Occupation Of Tel Rumeida

Posted on: February 16, 2013
Watch tower built above home

By Team Khalil

15 February 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine

Two brothers, Hani and Hashem Al Azzeh, who have had enough of the harassment they face on a daily basis from the Israeli occupation forces and settlers, are taking legal action to remove a military tower placed on the roof of one of their houses in Tel Rumeida, Hebron.

Watch tower built above home

In 1998 the lives of the two brothers was turned upside down when the army arrived with a map of houses and said … Continue reading


Updated on February 17, 2013
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Palestinians protest Israel’s illegal settlement policy by establishing new village “Al-Manatir” near Burin, Nablus

Posted on: February 3, 2013
Palestinians protest Israel’s illegal settlement policy by establishing new village “Al-Manatir” near Burin, Nablus

Update on 4 February:

In what seems to be a collective punishment for last Saturday´s construction of al-Manateer neighbourhood on privately owned Palestinian land (classified as Area B, according to the Oslo Accords) in Burin, Sunday night saw the Israeli army arrest two young boys from the village.

At around 8:30pm, a supposedly Palestinian ambulance showed up in Burin. Villagers were suspicious as the driver didn’t look entirely like a Palestinian. As young boys realised that the men in the front were plain-clothed Israeli soldiers, clashes erupted between Palestinian youth and soldiers.

Later on, as Ghassan and Mohammad were in a friend’s house, … Continue reading


Updated on May 21, 2013
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Big punishments for small hopes

Posted on: January 26, 2013
Big punishments for small hopes

by Haroun Zeitoun

26 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Burin, Occupied Palestine

This morning in Burin, the village that sits in the valley between the Yizhar and Bracha colonial settlements just south of Nablus, saw a small yet high-spirited group plant olive trees. The task was done within an hour and afterwards international activists were shown recently cut trees and, right on cue, the Israeli army could be seen on the periphery of Yizhar. Soon they drove down to … Continue reading


Updated on May 22, 2013
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The broken truce

Posted on: January 24, 2013
The broken truce

21 January 2013 | GazaStories, Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestine

A ceasefire was announced on 21st November, ending eight days of horrific bloodshed in Gaza. Has the delicate truce held over the past two months? It depends who you ask. Israelis or Gazans, each going about their daily lives on opposite sides of a border fence.

There has not been a single report of a rocket fired out of Gaza since 21st November. In contrast, four Palestinians have lost their lives and over 80 have been injured by Israeli forces since then. Yet these violations have received little or … Continue reading


Updated on May 19, 2013
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The long road to Bab al-Karama

Posted on: January 20, 2013
The long road to Bab al-Karama

20 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Bab al-Karama, Occupied Palestine

The road to Bab al-Karama, the new tent neighborhood created by Palestinians on land that will be separated from the village of Beit Iksa by the Apartheid wall, exposes a landscape of Apartheid.

To reach Bab al-Karama from Occupied Ramallah one needs to take the “Palestinian only” road that runs under the “Israeli only” 443 Highway between Ramallah and Beir Naballah.

Beir Naballah used to be a suburb of Jerusalem. Affluent Jerusalemites built their homes in Beir Naballah to escape from the housing crisis imposed on Palestinians by Jerusalem’s municipality housing polices. … Continue reading


Updated on January 23, 2013
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Meeting Samer Al Issawi in the holding room

Posted on: January 17, 2013
Meeting Samer Al Issawi in the holding room

16 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank, Occupied Palestine

By Neta Golan

After spending the night in the Russian compound detention center, known as Al Moskobia, I was taken to the holding cell in the court to await trail. Looking through the bars of the holding cell next to mine I was shocked to recognize Samer Al Issawi. I asked the young man standing near the barred door to tell Samer that I know him and that many others all over the world know his face, his name … Continue reading


Updated on May 21, 2013
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Nabi Saleh, still fighting

Posted on: January 7, 2013
Nabi Saleh, still fighting

5 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

After dreaming of this moment over and over for the past three years, last Friday, 4th January, I was finally able to go to Nabi Saleh’s demonstration and meet its wonderful villagers again.

When we arrived in the village, we went to the main square where Israeli and international activists and people from the village had started to gather after the midday prayers. Some faces were familiar, some were completely new and others were simply missing; arrests and death have passed through Nabi Saleh.

After … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2013
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Reflections on a brief exchange in the aftermath of a home demolition, 4 December 2012

Posted on: December 5, 2012
A Bedouin woman whose home has been demolished

by Jeff Berryhill

5 December 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The pain and anguish on the woman’s face was penetrating. Earlier this morning two Israeli military jeeps, one civil administration vehicle, and a bulldozer had arrived at her home with orders to level the structure. This is in spite of ongoing legal proceedings seeking to preserve the home. The modest twenty square meter home was erected by the owners of the land in November of 2011. Just three days after the building was complete, the Israeli Civil Administration arrived and informed the owners that the structure was not permissible due … Continue reading


Updated on December 6, 2012
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