Villagers from Ni’lin defied an Israeli military curfew today to converge on the site where the apartheid Wall is being constructed on village lands. Some 200 villagers – men, women and children – together with international and Israeli solidarity activists, ...
Read More »CPT: Israeli military blocks main access road in South Hebron Hills
By CPT To learn more about the Christian Peacemaker Teams work in at-Tuwani click here On 28th May, 2008, the Israeli military blocked the road between the village of At-Tuwani and the city of Yatta using three of the concrete ...
Read More »30 injured as Israeli army attacks protest in Ni’lin
On Tuesday, 27th May, approximately 500 residents from the village of Ni’lin and Al Midya in the Ramallah governorate, as well as international and Israeli activists, converged in Al Midya to protest against the construction of Israel’s illegal apartheid wall ...
Read More »IWPS: Palestinian farmers stop work on settlement expansion near Deir Istiya
To view IWPS website click here On Thursday, May 15th 2008, farmers from Deir Istiya noticed bulldozers and diggers working on their land close to the illegal Israeli settlement Revava. As they investigated closer, it became clear that the Municipality ...
Read More »Update: Ashraf Abu Rahme released, but remains under house arrest
UPDATE: Ashraf Abu Rahme was released from Israeli enforced detention yesterday (3rd June) after 8000 NIS bail was paid on behalf of him, yet he remains under house arrest. On Monday 26th May, Israeli settlers from the Matityahu East settlement, ...
Read More »Activists block bulldozers in Ni’lin
On Sunday 25 May 2008, local villagers, estimated at well over 100 people, accompanied by international and Israeli observers, representatives of the media and human rights workers converged this morning on the village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, to demonstrate ...
Read More »Silent protest in Shufa village, Tulkarem, against Israeli road-blocks
On Friday 23rd May, approximately 100 Palestinians from the village of Shufa and Tulkarem city, along with international activists, demonstrated against the closure of Shufa’s main road. In a silent protest against the presence of four road-blocks along the 1km ...
Read More »Settlers attack house in Asira al Qibliya, Nablus
The home of Nahla Machmoud and Jamal Yousef Saleh Ahmad in the village of Asira al Qibliya, near Nablus, again came under attack from Israeli settlers from nearby illegal Israeli settlement Yitzhar in the early hours of Tuesday morning, as ...
Read More »16 year old boy murdered by Israeli soldiers at Huwarra checkpoint
At 7pm on Monday 19th May, a 16 year old boy, Fihme Abdel Jawad Dardouk, was murdered by Israeli soldiers at the Huwarra checkpoint in Nablus. Israeli army spokespeople have since claimed that the boy, a volunteer in the Tanweer ...
Read More »Settlers attack Asira al Qibliya
The village of Asira al Qibliya again came under attack by settlers from the nearby illegal, Israeli settlement of Yitzhar on Friday 16h May. Residents of the village, located 3km south of Nablus, report that at approximately 2pm on Friday, ...
Read More »