Jenin

The Battle of Empty Stomachs: Khader Adnan highlights the consolation of solidarity

Posted on: April 24, 2012

by Sylvia

24 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

On the 17th of April, Palestinian political prisoners launched a mass hunger strike against the Israeli Prison Service’s (IPS) dismissal of the Fourth Geneva Convention and basic international law. The call for action comes on Palestinian Prisoners Day after a wave of high-profile hunger strikes evoked a global reaction.

Palestinian Support and Human Rights Association Addameer originally estimated that some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners would participate, along with approximately 2,300 others refusing meals in preparation for a wider campaign. Today, Israeli lawyers … Continue reading

Updated on April 24, 2012
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Addameer, Jenin, Nablus, Prisoner Hunger Strike, Prisoner Rights, Tubas

Night of Israeli violence: Al Aqsa Mosque barricade, house demolition, gang beating, arrests

Posted on: August 22, 2011

22 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Just after midnight on Monday, August 22 the Israeli military took the opportunity to trap 1500 Palestinian youth inside al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, blow up a house in Hebron (injuring 30 people in the ensuing riots), and arrested a member of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin.

In Jerusalem, thousands of Palestinians gathered to protest the Israeli escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip. Starting from the Bab Al ‘Amoud (Damscus Gate) area and marching toward Salah El Deen Street, the protesters suddenly found themselves under attack by Israeli soldiers after the latter claimed that … Continue reading

Updated on August 22, 2011
Posted under: Features, Reports
Tags: Freedom Theatre, Gaza, Hebron, Jenin, Ramat Migron outpost

Israeli military forces attack the freedom of theatre

Posted on: August 13, 2011

13 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp has faced targeted repression by the Israeli Army in recent weeks. At 3pm on August 6th, 2011, Israeli Occupation Forces arrested a Freedom Theatre actor at the Shave Shomeron checkpoint on his way from Ramallah to Jenin. Rami Awni Hwayel, a 20 year old acting student, was returning to Jenin from Ramallah to visit with family over the weekend during Ramadan. Rami’s acting colleagues and friends describe his arrest as “devastating” as Rami plays a main role in “Waiting for Godot” which is scheduled to … Continue reading

Updated on August 13, 2011
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Arrests, Freedom Theatre, Jenin, Ramadan

Green Palestine marks Nakba day

Posted on: May 19, 2011

Palestinians planting a tree to mark one of the villages wiped out in 1948

19 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement

With the creation of Israel in 1948, four hundred and eighteen Palestinian villages were wiped out and destroyed, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people from homes they had lived in for generations. This year on May 17, in further commemoration of the Nakba (the Catastrophe), the ISM joined the Palestinian organisation Green Palestine in planting olive trees in the village of Al Tayba, near Jenin in the north of … Continue reading

Updated on May 19, 2011
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Al Nakba, Jenin, Olive tree

Mourning Juliano Mer-Khamis

Posted on: April 7, 2011

Jeff Halper | Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

The ICAHD family mourns the tragic slaying of Juliano Mer-Khamis

The ICAHD family mourns the tragic slaying by masked gunmen of our friend and comrade Juliano Mer-Khamis in Jenin. Juliano was a major figure in the struggle for a just peace and the forging of a new multi-cultural society in Palestine/Israel based on human rights, freedom, equality and, not least, creative, critical expression.

Juliano, filmmaker, actor, and the co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, supported the work of ICAHD and frequently attended our summer rebuilding camp in the West … Continue reading

Updated on April 15, 2011
Posted under: Press Releases
Tags: Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Jeff Halper, Jenin, Juliano Mer-Khamis

Israel begins expanding settlement in Jenin

Posted on: October 16, 2010

Saturday, October 16th, 2010 | Ma’an News Agency

JENIN (Ma’an) — Israel began large-scale digging works on Saturday in preparation for the expansion of an illegal settlement in the northern West Bank district of Jenin.

Residents of the Ya’bad village, on which the Shaqed settlement is built, said bulldozers entered on Saturday and began razing village land to make way for several new housing units.

The expansion follows the expiration of a partial settlement moratorium in the West Bank last month, which the US and EU urged Israel to prolong in a bid to save flailing peace talks from collapse over settlement … Continue reading

Updated on October 23, 2010
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Jenin, Shaqed Settlement, Yabad

Israeli forces kill Palestinian youth in Yabad

Posted on: October 3, 2009

3 October 2009

On Wednesday, 30 September 2009, the Israeli army murdered a Palestinian youth outside his school, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam high school in Yabad village, west of Jenin. This school had been closed from 2001-2006.

Around 11:35am, a military jeep with the license plate number 655474 left the main road to turn into the access road to the school where a group of male students gathered close to the main entrance of the school. The jeep was driving at a fast speed and targeted Foad Mahmoud Naiyf Turkuman (age 17) who was crouching down close to a small concrete … Continue reading

Updated on October 4, 2009
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Foad Mahmoud Naiyf Turkman, Jenin, Video, Yabad

IDF jeep hits, kills Palestinian youth

Posted on: October 1, 2009

Efrat Weiss | YNet News
30 September 2009
A 17-year-old Palestinian high school student was injured after being hit by an IDF jeep in the village of Yabed near Jenin, and died shortly later of his wounds.
The IDF said the youth was injured during a riot in the area, but his relatives claim he was intentionally run over.
The IDF said the incident occurred during a routine tour of soldiers and representatives of the Mekorot water company, meant to improve the infrastructure in the village.
A violent riot reportedly broke out, and residents began throwing stones at the force. The military vehicle … Continue reading

Updated on October 1, 2009
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Foad Mahmoud Naiyf Turkman, Jenin, Yabad

Palestinian youth run over by Israeli military jeep outside school in Jenin-area village

Posted on: September 30, 2009

For Immediate Release:

30 September 2009: Palestinian youth run over by Israeli military jeep outside school in Jenin-area village.

At around 11am, Foad Mahmoud Naiyf Turkman, 17 years of age, was run over by a military jeep as he was standing outside of his high school.

Witnesses say that the students had finished school and were gathered outside Izz ad-Din al-Qassam high school in Yabad village, west of Jenin.

According to the uncle of Turkman, Mohammad Naiyf, who is a teacher in the school and witnessed the event,
“The jeep was driving fast towards a group of students. Foad was run over, the jeep backed … Continue reading

Updated on September 30, 2009
Posted under: Features, Press Releases
Tags: Foad Mahmoud Naiyf Turkman, Jenin, Yabad

Nakba demonstration held in Aneen village

Posted on: May 18, 2009

Jenin residents demonstrate against the Apartheid Wall

15 May 2009

In commemoration of the 61st year of al Nakba, residents from all over the Jenin area went to Aneen to demonstrate against the Apartheid Wall built on Palestinian land. About 300 woman, children, and men marched together in a peaceful protest towards a gate in the Wall, chanting in Arabic and English.

When the crowd reached the gate, the chanting increased and people fixed posters and Palestinian flags on the razor wire. Several speeches were held at the … Continue reading