25th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Beit Dajan, Occupied Palestine
Members of the Hannachi family next to one of the threatened homesFive houses are facing demolition orders on the outskirts of Beit Dajan, a village located 10 kilometers east of Nablus. In the last month the Israeli Army have entered the village and presented residents of three of the homes with demolition orders, stating the land that they reside on is classed as Area C and … Continue reading
24th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine
Tear-gas showered down on villagers in Kafr Qaddum yesterday, nearly blinding one media worker in a direct hit and nearly suffocating a child as villagers protested the roadblock that has hindered their lives for a full decade. The villager’s own stone barricades, meant to slow Israeli vehicle access during demonstrations, were bulldozed and jeeps entered the village shooting tear-gas indiscriminately. At least 5 dunams of land was also set fire to by tear-gas, some intentionally shot in such a way as to cause fire by the searing … Continue reading
23th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Khalil, Hebron, Occupied Palestine
On Tuesday 21st May, Jamila Shalaldeh was found innocent by Ofer Military Court of assaulting 13 soldiers.
Jamila and her son Abdel were visibly nervous before her trial. Fortunately, the Israeli military judge agreed with Jamila and her family that the charges against her were absolutely absurd. He even laughed when he heard the evidence filed against her.
Initially, Jamila had been ordered to pay 7,000 shekels, later reduced to 1,750 shekels. On March 21st, the judge declared Jamila innocent and further reduced the fine to 1,000 shekels. Still, it’s disturbing … Continue reading
22 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qalil, Occupied Palestine
The Israeli army invaded seven family homes in the village of Kafr Qalil, south of Nablus, between 1am and 2am on 20th May. They trashed the properties and people’s possessions and stayed in them for several hours apiece. Lastly, they arrested a university student, Saleh al-Amer, 22.
Saleh al-Amer had thought administartive detention was done with and he could look to his … Continue reading
![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]](http://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sabastiya-65-2-150x150.jpg)
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.
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.
The bulldozer came in very early so … Continue reading
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
18th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | ‘Anabta, Occupied Palestine
UPDATED: Two brothers of the arrested Deiyaa’ Nassar, cousins of the murdered Amer Nassar, were arrested last week Monday, May 13 past 2 am at night. Deiyaa’ Nassar, 19, and Fadi Abu-’Asr continue to be held in Mejiddo Israeli prison as their trials continue to be rescheduled on each previous trial date.
Deiyaa’s brothers, Bahaa, 20, and Baraa, 21, were arrested randomly; Bahaa is studying at university and Baraa is an artist in calligraphy who makes wooden plaques and ornaments with calligraphic Arabic text or Palestinian images.
Deiyaa, Bahaa, and … Continue reading
17th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Ramallah | Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestine
Today Palestinian, international and Israeli activists marched towards a well that was stolen from the village of Nabi Saleh by the establishment of Halamish illegal settlement. As activists walked down the hill towards the well, Israeli soldiers shot tear gas at them which set fire to the ground around them. As they did so , soldiers sang “we wish your whole village would burn down”. Activists were then blocked from reaching the spring by a large group of Israeli soldiers. At the same time, a skunk water … Continue reading
17th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Deir Jarir, Occupied Palestine
Bulldozer working Palestinian land accompanied by peaceful protesters. Illegal settlement outpost visible on hill The village of Deir Jarir today, 17th May, held its fourth consecutive weekly demonstration to protest Israeli land grab and settler violence against its villagers. The rally was violently suppressed by Israeli forces, who shot large amounts of tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets at demonstrators. Live ammunition was … Continue reading
