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Farmland exploited for Israeli military exercises

Posted on: May 23, 2012
Tents erected by the Israeli military to house soldiers during military training.

By Alex

22 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Monday the 21 of May is the third day in a row of Israeli military exercises in and around the small Palestinian village of Khirbet Atwayel outside Nablus. These exercises prevent the farmers from working on their lands and force the villagers to sleep under the sound of heavy shelling with the constant presence of soldiers.

Khirbet Atweyel is a village located on the slopes West of the Jordan valley. The 18 families that reside there are almost exclusively farmers and have been victims to the actions of the Israeli Occupation Forces … Continue reading


Updated on May 23, 2012
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Burin: arbitrary arrests continue

Posted on: May 22, 2012
Castro Risaq's three sons. The youngest (centre) requires eye surgery which may be impossible due to his father's imprisonment - click to see more photos

By Maria Erdely

22 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Castro Risaq was arrested on the night of the May 1 in Burin, a village just 7 kilometres south west of Nablus. The Israeli military arrived at 1 a.m. demanding Castro. Waking up the family, they barged through the front door. The 38 year old man was arrested and blindfolded without an opportunity to get dressed. His wife and 6 children were forced to watch as the head of the family was taken away without explanation. No charges have been pressed yet. The soldiers who arrested him stated only, “this … Continue reading


Updated on May 22, 2012
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Occupied Palestine: farce, tragedy, travesty

Posted on: May 20, 2012

By Patrick Keddie
20 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
The three snapshots below are composed from interviews conducted whilst working for the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank from September to December 2011.
FARCE
Rodni Jaber is a Palestinian woman who lives and works as a farmer in Al-Baqa’a, a windswept valley situated a few kilometers East of Hebron in the West Bank. Her family is regularly attacked by Israeli settlers and harassed by the Israeli military.
In 1998 Rodni’s son Raja was born. A few days after his birth, settlers … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2012
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Settler Attack: Palestinian man shot in head in Asira al-Qibliya

Posted on: May 20, 2012
Settler Attack: Palestinian man shot in head in Asira al-Qibliya

By Maria Erdely
20 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
Asira al-Qibliya, a village located south-west of Nablus, was attacked by illegal Israeli settlers yesterday. The attack lasted all afternoon leaving 7 Palestinians injured, of which 5 required hospitalization. Settlers fired live ammunition at the Palestinians, and one man was in critical condition after being shot in the head.
Israeli settlers arrived at Asira in the afternoon and before any Palestinians or Israeli soldiers came they began the attack by setting fire to the land. The people of Asira arrived and responded by throwing stones towards the … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2012
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Gaza: Harvesting barley at Erez crossing amidst gun fire

Posted on: May 20, 2012
Palestinian farmers harvesting barley near the no-go zone in Gaza

By Hama Waqum
19 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
Ten Palestinian volunteers harvested wheat in Gaza’s northern no-go zone on Wednesday, May 16, only 350 meters from where the Israeli Apartheid wall encircles the Gaza Strip. Two weeks ago the barley was cut and gathered and on Wednesday, volunteers loaded the harvest onto donkey carts to transport it for sorting, in the face of Apache helicopters, tanks, and F-16 fighter jets.


The work began at approximately 8:45am in northern Beit Hanoun, and immediately an Israeli tank … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2012
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Nakba Day: Palestinian group attempts to return to 1948 territories, one arrested

Posted on: May 19, 2012

By Ling Lewis

19 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
 A Palestinian man was arrested at Ni’lin checkpoint on Tuesday, April 15 during a Nakba Day demonstration. The procession successfully crossed the checkpoint which separates the West Bank from Palestinian territories seized in 1948. They were violently forced back by occupation soldiers and police. A Palestinian woman and an international woman were also detained but released that same afternoon.
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Updated on May 19, 2012
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Balata Refugee Camp: The toll of human rights violations and imprisonment

Posted on: May 10, 2012

by Alex

9 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The 9th May marks the 22nd day of the Palestinian prisoners mass hunger strike. Today as with every day, the prisoners’ families and friends met at Nablus Prisoners’ tent in a show of solidarity, paying respect to their sons, brothers, daughters and sisters suffering in Israeli prisons in conditions which constantly violate international laws.

Said al Kabi, 54, is just one father whose anguish is worn on his worried face. He has suffered greatly, lost many family members and both of his legs to the illegal Israeli occupation. His son, Jawad al … Continue reading


Updated on May 11, 2012
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Idhna: Family faces a third home demolition by Israel

Posted on: May 8, 2012
Idhna: Family faces a third home demolition by Israel

by Sunny

8 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank


On Monday, May 7 in the southern West Bank village of Idhna, Mohamed Temezi was busy working on his caravan home. Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrived unexpectedly and subjected him and his wife Faizah Temezi to a 3 hour ordeal in which they were detained, and beaten. Their new home was threatened with demolition.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) provided the caravan for the Temezi family. They … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2012
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Karmei Tsur: Poisoning the vine with Zionism

Posted on: May 8, 2012
Karmei Tsur: Poisoning the vine with Zionism

by Joseph

7 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

 

When Ali Awad visited his orchard on Friday morning before the midday prayer he noticed nothing out of the usual. But eight hours later, when he returned to his land in order to gather grape leaves to sell in the local market, he was shocked to find that his trees had been poisoned. The grape leaves, which Ali depends on substantially for income, had died and shriveled up, making them impossible to sell. Twelve peach trees belonging to Ali’s neighbor … Continue reading


Updated on May 10, 2012
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Following settler attack, Palestinian woman arrested in Al Khalil

Posted on: May 7, 2012

by Maria and Roda

7 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

A Palestinian woman was arrested by occupation police in Al Khalil (Hebron) yesterday after her home was attacked by settlers.

47 year old Jamila Hassan Abdul Fattah Al-Shalaldeh and her family live with two other familes in a home on Zionist controlled Shuhada Street .

Sunday night at 7 o clock, a group of settlers entered the family home with a large mirror, smashing the mirror on the staircase of the house before fleeing to the street. When occupation police and soldiers arrived (the home is across the street from an … Continue reading


Updated on May 7, 2012
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