Category: Nablus

  • Revisiting Ni’lin after four years

    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…

  • Villages of Urif, Burin and Asira violently attacked by settlers

    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…

  • UPDATED: Two teenagers murdered at checkpoint

    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…

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

    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. The residents of Sabastiya…

  • Protests sparked after prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh dies in Israeli custody

    3rd April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement,  Occupied Palestine Demonstrations have been held today in several cities across the West Bank to protest the death of prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh. A strike has also been held in Nablus, Hebron and East Jerusalem, amongst other cities. In Nablus, over three hundred Palestinians, together with international activists, participated today…