by Mary, October 30th 2006 At 4.20pm, international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) at the Tel Rumeida crossing noticed that Israeli settlers from the Tel Rumeida settlement were picking olives by the Israeli army post nearby the settlement. These olive trees ...
Read More »Chaos Caused by Israeli Checkpoint
by ISM Nablus, Wednesday 1st November At one o’clock this afternoon, the Israeli checkpoint of Beit Iba, just west of Nablus City was closed for all vehicles and pedestrians attempting to pass it. Located at a junction between the villages ...
Read More »International Accompaniment Makes a Difference in Zawata
by ISM Nablus, Wednesday 1st November “What do you think of this place? Isn’t is beautiful?” The woman asking the question, a mother of four polished and polite children, looks at us expectantly. What can we say? Wadi Al-Khrazey on ...
Read More »Two Hour Delay for Teachers at Tel Rumeida Checkpoint
by ISM Hebron, November 1st 8:15 a.m., a human rights worker who happened to be walking through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint, discovered that 12 teachers and the headmistress from Qurtuba School were being refused entry at the checkpoint. At this ...
Read More »Olive Harvest in Tel Rumeida Interrupted by Occupation Authorities
by ISM Hebron, October 31st At 8:00 a.m. six internationals gathered at the home of the Palestinian family that lives directly across the street from the Tel Rumeida settlement to help the family pick its olives. Settlers had stolen olives ...
Read More »More Settler Intimidation in Nablus Olive Harvest
by ISM Nablus, 30th October At 8am this morning two international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) accompanied a Palestinian family from the village of Azmut, just east of Nablus, to their olive groves. This land has found itself within close proximity ...
Read More »Two Brothers Arrested in Balata Refugee Camp
by ISM Nablus, Monday 30th October Photo credit: Ma’an News Agency About five o’clock this morning, Israeli Special Forces invaded Balata refugee camp east of Nablus. It was an unusually quiet military incursion and a large number of Balata inhabitants ...
Read More »Media Distortion of Palestinian Non-Violent Protest
by Dennis Fox, October 29th Every Friday for the past year and a half villagers from Bil’in, a small West Bank village near Ramallah, march with supporters toward the triple-layer fence separating them from their olive trees. They are always ...
Read More »Olive Harvest in Tel Rumeida under Threat from Settlers
by ISM Hebron Thursday 26th October Our Palestinian neighbour, H, lives only 2 metres away from the Tel Rumeida settlement. On Wednesday night he came over to explain to the internationals living in Tel Rumeida the situation as they had ...
Read More »Olive Harvest Faces Obstacles from Israeli Army: Three Nablus Region Reports from the 25th and 27th of October
by ISM Nablus affinity groups and ISM Media team Harvest Continues in Salim Despite Occupation Wednesday 25th October: With Eid celebrations complete, the annual olive harvest continued today in villages across the West bank. In the village of Salim near ...
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