Human rights worker is dragged by Israeli police by M.W. On August 5, seven Palestinian men were caged in a detention structure at Beit Iba checkpoint outside Nablus. They included 6 students and one assistant dean from Al-Najah University. All ...
Read More »Soldiers Steal Palestinian Flags from the Outpost
Shelter at the outpost (foreground), roadblock (middle) and settlement outpost (background) Internationals were disturbed at the Palestinian outpost* in Bil’in by Israeli military vehicles both during daytime and in the middle of the night. On the night of July 31st ...
Read More »Settlers attack Palestinians and Human Rights Workers
On August 5th, two Human Rights Workers (HRWs) from Denmark were sitting on Shuhada Street in Tel Rumeida. At around 2:45 PM a Palestinian boy, around age 15, wanted to use the stairs at the end of Shuhada Street, opposite ...
Read More »Action Taken Against Two Israeli Checkpoints that Close Nablus
by Michael Yesterday, August 2nd, hundreds of people waited for hours at Huwarra checkpoint, which is the main entrance to Nablus from the south and one of the most restrictive in all of the West Bank. Everyone was packed into ...
Read More »NGOs in Gaza Call Attention to Humanitarian Crisis and War Crimes
On July 30th, the Palestinian NGOs Network “PNGO” organized a demonstration in solidarity with the Lebanese people in front of the United Nations head quarter in Gaza city. Similarly, over twenty international humanitarian aid agencies and non-governmental organisations have joined ...
Read More »Soldiers Make Residents Pay to Pass Checkpoint
by W.B. Asira Al Shamaliyeh, a town of about 12,000 located a few kilometers north of the mountains from Nablus, has come to suffer under a new aspect of occupation. Asira has in recent months been effectively cut off from ...
Read More »Armed Settler Militia Harrass Farmers in Beit Ummar
by Ernesto At 8:30am on Sunday, July 30th, six internationals accompanied Abu Ayyash and Yousef, both farmers, and Ahmed, a local organizer, from Beit Ummar, to spray their grapes with pesticides. Despite aggressive activity by settler militia and an Israeli ...
Read More »Israeli Special Forces Excecute Two in Nablus
AP photo: Ewijan after he was taken to the morgue by Michael Last night, in the Ash Sheikh Musallem district of Nablus’s Old city, undercover agents of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) carried out two extra-judicial assassinations. According to eyewitness ...
Read More »Israeli Military Harrassment of Human Rights Workers in Hebron Continues
On July 28th, a human rights worker (HRW) was sitting by checkpoint 56 (which is the main entrance to Tel Rumeida, Hebron from the Palestinian controlled H1 area) from about 12 noon til 3:00 in order to monitor the behavior ...
Read More »IOF Death Threats, Harrasment & Interrogation – Life in Balata as “Normal”
by Micheal and Lina Last night, July 28th, at approximately 3:00 am, Saeed Haettalla, 53, from Balata refugee camp, was arrested and interrogated for the second time in two day, aparently without reason. In the middle of the night, Saeed ...
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