UPDATE: Cousins of teenager murdered at checkpoint arrested

UPDATE: Cousins of teenager murdered at checkpoint arrested

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

Photo essay: March through Nablus and Tulkarem commemorates the Nakba

Participants gather in Nablus before the march (Photo by ISM)

13th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Nablus and Tulkarem, Occupied Palestine

By Team Nablus

Today, at around 8am, over thirty people from the Palestinian General Union of People with Disability marched through the city of Nablus to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba.

Participants gather in Nablus before the march (Photo by ISM)

People marching along al-Quds Street in Nablus (Photo by ISM)

 

After the march, … Continue reading

“We don’t go to their homes throwing rocks, why do they do it to us?”

Settlers harass farmers in Jalud in 2007

13th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Jalud, Occupied Palestine

Team Nablus

At about 11 PM on Sunday, May 5, about 40 Israeli settlers attacked the village of Jalud, west of Salfit, and attempted to set fire to two homes with firebombs. Settler attacks on Jalud started two years ago from nearby illegal settlements of Yahyah , which started as an illegal outpost 13 years ago and Esh Kodesh a more recent outpost. Attacks are typically on the homes of five families on the furthermost edge of the settlements. All of those homes now have several metal grates covering their … Continue reading

Askar: a new arrest in the midst of old issues

Two residents walk down a street in New Askar camp

12th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Nablus, Occupied Palestine

By Team Nablus

On Tuesday 7th May, at 2am, Ahmad as-Sars was arrested whilst in his home with family and well wishers gathered to mourn the death of his grandmother the previous day. New Askar refugee camp faces many problems in its right to exist, economy and the support it receives.  Despite their daily struggles, hope for the future remains strong in the next generation, of which the independently run Keffiyeh Community Center, located in the camp, is an impressive example.

Mahmoud Sars … Continue reading

The Oslo Accords – still dead in Nablus

8th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus, Occupied Palestine

By Team Nablus
Nablus was disturbed by two army jeeps driving in a circuit round the city centre and shooting tear gas at young men, with no clear intent other than to harass them for around three hours.
Shooting and sound bombs were heard beginning at 01:45. Two Israeli military jeeps circled around one block in central Nablus for three hours shooting tear gas and sound bombs at a group of 20 young people. The excessive shooting of tear gas at close range caused public property damage to surrounding buildings and … Continue reading

Journal: Revisiting Ni’lin after four years

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

Villages of Urif, Burin and Asira violently attacked by settlers

Settlers attack village residents as the Israeli army stand by . Photo: Activestills

1st May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus, Occupied Palestine

By Team Nablus

Yesterday Israeli settlers from the Illegal settlement of Yizhar set fire to the fields of Asira al Qibliya, Burin and Urif as well as attacking the school and many homes in the villages, all while the Israeli Military and Border Police provided protection for them.

Settlers attack village residents as the Israeli army stand by . Photo: Activestills

The attacks were provoked by the stabbing of a settler from Yitzhar … Continue reading

UPDATED: Two teenagers murdered at checkpoint

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

Army invasion of Burin

Damage to Burin cultural centre

12th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Burin, Occupied Palestine

At 2am on Thursday 11 April Burin village near Nablus was invaded by over ten army jeeps, 100 soldiers and border police. The Army raided houses arresting 3 young men from the village and destroying the cultural centre used by the community.

Destruction of Burin Cultural Centre

Solidarity activists entered the village shortly after 2am and witnessed soldiers all over the village, detaining a youth and raiding several homes. They were able to enter the home of one … Continue reading

Village of Sabastiya celebrates successful campaign against sewage dumping on their land

Demonstrator in Sabastiya

7th April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Occupied Palestine

Residents of the village Sabastiya near Nablus have confirmed that the pipe which pumps raw sewage onto their land from nearby illegal settlement Shave Shomron has been shut off. The raw sewage poisoned both olive and apricot trees belonging to the village.

Demonstrator in Sabastiya

The residents of Sabastiya have been demonstrating against the dumping since March this year and are now celebrating the success of their campaign. On the three occasions that the villagers demonstrated against the sewage since March they … Continue reading


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