Author: ISM Media Group

  • Settler attack in Urif – Israeli police do nothing

    by ISM Nablus, December 5th On Sunday the 4th of December, a group of Israeli residents of Yitzhar colony attacked farmers from Urif, a small village south of Nablus, while they were harvesting their olives on land adjacent to the village itself. This area is not normally considered to be a high-risk area due to…

  • Sabatash checkpoint closed indefinitely

    by ISM Nablus, December 5th The checkpoint commonly known as “Sabatash”, named after the Palestinian security forces that used to maintain a presence there, has been closed indefinitely for all civilian traffic bar humanitarian transportation such as ambulances and medical supply deliveries. This turn of events was suddenly announced a little more than two weeks…

  • Israel refuses visa extensions for foreign passport holders

    Right to Entry, December 5th In a new escalation of Israel’s policy of denying Palestinians and their families access to the Israeli occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), the Israeli Civil Administration at Beit El is refusing to accept at least 140 passports for visa extensions. The passport holders are mostly spouses and children of Palestinian I.D.-holders…

  • Witness to checkpoint abuse “punished” by IOF

    by aspiringnomad December 5th On Saturday at 4pm a human rights worker based in Nablus received a call from some fellow HRWs at Huwwara checkpoint, that hundreds of Palestinians including a mother with a sick child weren’t being allowed through after the checkpoint had been closed. When the HRW arrived there were hundreds of people…

  • When Human Rights Watch Equates Aggressor with the Aggrieved

    from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Three Palestinian human rights organizations (PCHR, Al-Mezan, and Addameer) sent the below letter to Ms. Sarah Leah Whitson (Middle East Director of Human Rights Watch) in response to the Human Rights Watch position against Palestinian civilians exercising their right of peaceful, unarmed resistance against the illegal demolition of…