Category: Press Releases

  • Israeli soldiers lockdown checkpoints for jewish settler parade, Purim

    Israeli soldiers lockdown checkpoints for jewish settler parade, Purim

    Israeli soldiers close checkpoint 56 leading to the neighborhood of Tel Rumeida for an hour this morning, restricting the freedom of movement even further for Palestinian residents. Israeli settlers were celebrating the jewish holiday Purim as they paraded down Al Shuhada street and gathered outside Al Ibrahimi mosque playing loud music and drinking alcohol. Shop owners…

  • Shuhada Kindergarten Stands in Solidarity with Child Prisoners

    Shuhada Kindergarten Stands in Solidarity with Child Prisoners

    Human Rights Defenders organised a solidarity campaign with Palestinian Child prisoners in the Shuhada St Kindergarten on Sunday February 4, 2018. The Kindergarten is close to the Cordoba school in the H2 Israeli controlled area of al Khalil (Hebron). Both the school and the kindergarten have to access Shuhada St. down some stairs through a…

  • Upcoming Settler Tour in Nablus Set to Spark Tensions

    Upcoming Settler Tour in Nablus Set to Spark Tensions

    Shavei Shomron, an illegal Israeli settlement located to the west of Nablus in the West Bank has advertised a tour of Nablus old city, Tel Balata and Joseph’s Well on the coming Tuesday evening – the 30th of January. According to the advert, the event will start with a meeting in the illegal settlement, before…

  • Young Palestinians being arrested by Israeli soldiers in Yabad

    Young Palestinians being arrested by Israeli soldiers in Yabad

    December 25th 2017  International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Occupied Palestine | Yabad | North Palestine. Around Yabad there are two big Israeli settlements. In the last few weeks the repressive action by the Israeli army on Yabbad’s Palestinian people has escalated. Several Teenagers have been arrested, they were taken out from their homes on night raides. Raiding his house,…

  • Kfar Qaddum demo marking 100 years since Balfour suppressed by Israeli military

    Kfar Qaddum demo marking 100 years since Balfour suppressed by Israeli military

    3rd November 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Occupied Palestine The weekly demonstration had around 30 participants, with three of them being international women. As usual, the demonstration takes place to protest the closing of the road leading to Nablus. This measure was explained to satisfy “the need of security” for the Kedumin…