Live ammunition

Palestinian farmer injured by Israeli army fire

Posted on: June 17, 2013

Muhareb Abu Omar, 48 (Photo: Rosa Schiano)

17th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine

Friday afternoon, June 14, 2013, Muhareb Abu Omar, a Palestinian farmer aged 48, was wounded by Israeli army fire in the Deir El Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip.

Omar was irrigating his land in the village of Wadi As-Salqa, 600 meters from the barrier that separates Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Muhareb Abu Omar, 48 (Photo: Rosa Schiano)

Omar reported that Israeli jeeps moved along the border while he was working. Suddenly, after … Continue reading

Updated on June 18, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Buffer zone, Deir Al- Balah, Farmers, Gaza, Live ammunition, Wadi As-Salqa

Man wounded by Israeli gunfire in the southern Gaza Strip

Posted on: June 11, 2013

Amer Abu Hadayed, 20 years, hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of the European hospital (Photo: Rosa Schiano)

11th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine
On the morning of Monday, 10th June, a Palestinian man was injured by Israeli army fire while working in the area of Sufa, southern Gaza Strip, near the barrier with Israel.

Amer Abu Hadayed, 20 years, hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of the European hospital (Photo by Rosa Schiano)
Hadayed Abu Amer, 20, was picking up rocks and … Continue reading

Updated on June 13, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Buffer zone, Gaza, Khan Younis, Live ammunition

Journal: Palestinian farmer wounded by Israeli army fire

Posted on: June 7, 2013

7th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine

Sunday morning a young Palestinian farmer was wounded by Israeli army fire in an area called Abu Safiyeh, East of Jabalia, in the Northern Gaza Strip.

The young man, Ahmad Hamdan, 21, was rushed to the hospital Kamal Odwan. We went to visit him in the hospital where we met some of his family members.
According to his uncle Eyad Hamdan, at around 6:00 am on Sunday, June 2, Ahmad was going to pick watermelons along with four or five other workers. Ahmad’s family does not … Continue reading

Updated on June 7, 2013
Posted under: Journals
Tags: Buffer zone, Farmers, Gaza, Jabaliya, Live ammunition

UPDATE: Cousins of teenager murdered at checkpoint arrested

Posted on: May 18, 2013

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

Updated on May 20, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Anabta, Arrests, Live ammunition, Nablus, Prisoner

Live ammunition fired at Deir Jarir demonstration against land grab and settler violence

Posted on: May 17, 2013

Tear gas being fired at demonstrators setting fires in the valley

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

Updated on May 17, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Deir Jarir, Demonstration, Live ammunition, Tear-gas canister

Journal: Revisiting Ni’lin after four years

Posted on: May 2, 2013

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
Posted under: Journals
Tags: International law, Live ammunition, Nablus, Ni'lin, Wall

UPDATED: Two teenagers murdered at checkpoint

Posted on: April 15, 2013

Fadi Abu-A’sr was shot in the lower arm.

15th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, ‘Anabta, Occupied Palestine

By Team Nablus

UPDATED: The fourth of the four Anabta village boys who were present at the murder of Amer Nassar, 17 and Naji al-Balbisi, 18 and the arrest of Deiyaa’ Nassar, 19 was taken by Israeli soldiers at about 4 AM on Tuesday April 9.

Fadi Abu-’Asr, 17 was brought to the hospital in Tulkarm the night of his friends’ deaths to treat his right forearm, injured by a plastic-coated steel bullet. He was discharged from the hospital shortly after to recover at home, but is now in the custody of the … Continue reading

Updated on April 16, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Live ammunition, Nablus

Funeral procession for two young boys killed by the Israeli army in ‘Anabta

Posted on: April 4, 2013

Amer Nassars body in the morgue. Photo by WAFA News

4th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, ‘Anabta, Occupied Palestine

by Team Nablus

On Thursday 4 April the village of ‘Anabta, near Tulkarem buried two of their young men. Amer Nassar, 17 and Naji al-Balbisi, 18 were shot dead by the Israeli Army at the Enav checkpoint late on Wednesday evening. Amer Nassars body in the morgue. Photo by WAFA News

Despite reports last night that Naji had escaped the Army gunfire, he was found by the Red Crescent medics on Thursday morning after a phone … Continue reading

Updated on April 4, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Demonstration, Live ammunition, Prisoner

UPDATED: Two teenagers murdered at checkpoint

Posted on: April 4, 2013

4th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, ‘Anabta, Occupied Palestine

By Team Nablus

At 22:30 on 3 April Israeli soldiers opened fire with live ammunition and killed a 17 year-old boy, from the village of ‘Anabta near Enav checkpoint and east of Tulkarm. Amer Nassar was murdered with a bullet to his chest.

Fadi Abu-A’sr was shot in the lower arm.

On hearing the shooting 3 boys from the village went to investigate and saw Amer lying on the floor with soldiers standing over him. The … Continue reading

Updated on April 4, 2013
Posted under: Features, Reports
Tags: Demonstration, Live ammunition

Student shot and many others injured during night raid in Al Fawwar camp , Hebron

Posted on: March 14, 2013

12th March 2013 International Solidarity Movement, Hebron , Occupied Palestine

By Team Khalil

One student is dead and three others were shot during an Israeli army night raid in the al-Fawwar camp south of Hebron on Tuesday. 5 others were also injured .25 year old university student, Mahmoud Adel Tete, was shot with live ammunition alongside his teenage brother and two other men last night at 9pm . Funeral of Mahmoud Adel Al-Tete

Four army vehicles entered the refugee camp attempting to find a suspect they claimed had thrown … Continue reading