7th March 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Occupied Palestine
The video below shows the presence of Israeli flying checkpoints and roadblocks that impede Palestinian movement.
The trip from Ramallah to Nablus can take as long as 2 hours. Roadblocks and flying checkpoints along the road slow traffic for Palestinian travelers. The soldiers claim there was a bomb, but after some cigarettes and laughing they decide to open the road.
6 March 2014| International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus| Talfeet, Occupied Palestine
Farmers caught a settler cutting down olive trees in Talfeet, delivered him to the Israeli police and lodge a complaint toward him.
This morning, at around 10:30, three farmers working on their land in Talfeet caught a settler cutting down ” title=”olive trees”>olive trees in the area. Quickly joined by other villagers, they were able to capture him. They then kept him on the spot, waiting for the Israeli police.
At 12:00, the police arrived the place with the army. After the explanations of those involved, they finally left with the settler under arrest.
Indeed, this settler, known as “Kurein” by the locals, is sadly notorious in the area surrounding the illegal settlement of Eli for different attacks and attempts to damage state properties.
Later in the afternoon, the farmers met again the Israeli police, going with soldiers and members of the DCO, to notice the damages and lodge a complaint toward Kurein. The Israeli mandated for this task clearly said to the villagers that the two “troublemakers” (ISM observers) were unwelcome and that they had to stay away from the area. Following the incident, when the two volunteers came back to the scene to take pictures, all the broken branches had been removed from the place.
Furthermore, last month, settlers from Eli tried on several occasions to attack the Palestinian houses during the night, waking up the inhabitants and placing pressure on the families. After many complains from the villagers to the mayor, a dialogue has been set up between the Israeli authorities and the Palestinian representative of Nablus area to try to prevent the aggressiveness of the settlers. This attack threatens the quietness of the last days in the village of Talfeet.
5th March 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Al Sawiya, Occupied Palestine
On Monday March 3rd, in the early afternoon, Obada Muhammad Saleh, a 17 years old Palestinian was arrested by the Israeli Forces in his school in Al Sawiya.
Around 1pm last Monday, was school children were leaving Al Sawiya’s school, ten Israeli soldiers invaded the school’s courtyard and threw stun grenades and tear gas grenades at the children in order to arrest Obada Muhammad Saleh, who was quietly walking out of his class. Soldiers blindfolded and handcuffed him in the back, before bringing the teenager to their jeep. Teachers who were trying to protect Obada were verbally assaulted by Israeli soldiers on the scene. The young 17 year old is now facing charges of “stone throwing.”
It is not the first time a minor gets arrested in Al Sawiya school located next to road 60, in Area C. Out of 413 students coming there from Al Sawiya, Al Lubban and ‘Ammuriya, twenty got arrested in the last 3 years. Out of necessity, teachers need to walk the kids to school everyday due to the constant presence of the army around the school.
3rd March 2014| International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team| Madama, Occupied Palestine
Last morning, early on Monday March 3rd, around 100 Israeli soldiers raided the village of Madama, south of Nablus, breaking in houses and detaining 15 people. All of the detainees were released later the same night.
The Israeli forces entered the village around 2am and invaded seven houses, breaking the doors and throwing stun grenades. The soldiers vandalized the houses and proceeded to handcuff 15 people, keeping them detained for 4 hours. Pictures of the victims of the raid were taken by the Israeli Forces, who also interrogated them. All of the Palestinians were released in the center of the village of Madama at 6am, when the soldiers left the village.
Arsenal of Israeli exactions stays endless, this night raid example in Madama is a proof that we didn’t need, such Israeli violence gets daily in this village.
In a bigger scale, this is violence by Israeli state in the Occupied territories where military law reigns and prevents any Palestinian to live a normal life.
20th February 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine
On Thursday the 20th of February, the violent arrests of seven villagers occurred early in the morning in the village of Kafr Qaddum. Four of those arrested, including the coordinator of the weekly demonstration, were released after six hours. The three others are still under detention. One of them suffered a head injury during his arrest. 
Between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m., hundreds of Israeli soldiers surrounded then entered the village of Kafr Qaddum. The soldiers went to several houses and violently arrested seven villagers, including the coordinator of the weekly march. They handcuffed and blindfolded the villagers and physically and verbally abused them. One of those arrested, Faris Nidal, was injured in the head in the process.
The coordinator of the march has been pressured to put an end to the weekly demonstration taking place each friday in the village for more than four years. The goal of the demonstration is to pressure the army to open the road linking Kafr Qaddum and the whole Qalqiliya district to Nablus. The Supreme Court of Israel officially agreed to this demand in 2010, with no visible effect on the ground.
Later in the morning, around 8:00 a.m., four of the villagers, including the coordinator, were released. The three other villagers, including Faris Nidal, remain in detention in an uncertain location.
