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 ...
Read More »Settler Colonists Beat Palestinian Family – One Palestinian Arrested
by ISM Nablus, October 27th Palestinian farmers were today harvesting olives on their land between the quarry at Huwarra checkpoint and Berakhya settlement. A Palestinian house stands uninhabited in the middle of this area, casting a desolate shadow over the ...
Read More »Peaceful Bil’in Protestors Attacked by IOF
by ISM media team, October 27th for video and audio footage of the demo visit www.palestinewitness.net Twelve-year old Ibrahim Ghazi Beit-Ilo was hit in the neck by shrapnel from a live bullet following a peaceful protest march against the Apartheid ...
Read More »Settlers annex and destroy more land in Susiya
by Palestine Solidarity Project, October 26th On October 21, soldiers and settlers from Susiya settlement came with army- issued bulldozers and proceeded to destroy 150 Dunums (1 Dunum=1/4 acre) of olive groves belonging to the Palestinians. The groves belong to ...
Read More »Two Roadblocks Removed in One Day
by Palestine Solidarity Project, October 26th October 23, 2006, members of the Palestine Solidarity Project joined with Israeli peace groups Ta’ayush and Anarchists Againt The Wall to challenge the validity of the illegally created road blocks that have been forced ...
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