Category: Nablus

  • Collective punishment in Palestine

    Collective punishment in Palestine

    22nd June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement| Occupied Palestine On Thursday 12th of this month, three settler youth disappeared while hitchhiking in the Hebron area of the West Bank. No Palestinian group or organisation has taken responsibility for the disappearance. 15-year-old Mohammad Dudeen was murdered in the early hours of Friday morning (20th) after he was…

  • Palestinian kidnapped by Israeli forces in Awarta

    Palestinian kidnapped by Israeli forces in Awarta

    16th June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Awarta, Occupied Palestine At approximately 2:00 AM on the 15th June, Israeli soldiers conducted a night raid in the village of Awarta near Nablus, which was one of a series of raids and closures carried out by Israeli forces, following the disappearance of three Israeli settler youth close to al-Khalil (Hebron). Palestinian witnesses state that over 50 Israeli…

  • Palestinian murdered by Israeli forces in Huwarra

    Palestinian murdered by Israeli forces in Huwarra

    4th June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Huwwara, Occupied Palestine In the late hours of Monday evening, Israeli forces executed 30-year-old, father of two, Alaa’ Mohammed ‘Awadh, at Za’tara checkpoint, in southern Nablus. The Israeli army claimed that a Palestinian gunman was shot dead after he injured an Israeli police officer in the leg. The villagers of…

  • Eight shebab [youths] kidnapped in Asira al-Qibliya

    Eight shebab [youths] kidnapped in Asira al-Qibliya

    2nd June 2014 | International Women’s Peace Service | Asira al-Qibliya, Occupied Palestine At around 2 am on Sunday night, five Israeli military jeeps, three large military vehicles, and some 30 soldiers on foot arrived in the village of Asira al-Qibliya (south of Nablus). In total silence, they started entering Palestinian houses without knocking on their doors first. That…

  • Photo story: Palestinians march in Tulkarem to defend their right of return

    Photo story: Palestinians march in Tulkarem to defend their right of return

    31th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Tulkarem, Occupied Palestine On the morning of the 31st of May, several buses filled with Palestinian and international activists from across the West Bank gathered in Tulkarem to march towards the Natanya checkpoint, used only by the Israeli military forces. Political groups, Palestinian civil society and…