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 ...
Read More »Settler Vandalism Caught on Tape
by B.B. On Wednesday, July 26th, at approximately 1:30 pm, a group of internationals went with the farmer Abu Jabber Soleiby to document the most recent damage to his land by settlers from the nearby settlement Beit ‘Ain. The settlers ...
Read More »Bil’in Rejects US version of “the New Middle East”
Today, Friday July 28th, the people of Bil’in in conjunction with Israelis and international supporters marched to the Apartheid wall carrying a coffin draped in the Palestinian and Lebanese flags. On the side of the coffin it read “the New ...
Read More »The Scene of Destruction at the Nablus Muqata
A follow-up report from our original press release about the attack. By Michael. Today, two ISM activists visited the site of the demolished Muqata in Nablus. Last week, from July 19th until July 21st Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) laid siege ...
Read More »Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals Rebuild Homes Demolished by the Occupation Forces
by Ernesto The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has been instrumental in challenging one of the most nefarious features of the Israeli occupation of Palestine – the demolition of Palestinian homes. ISM’ers have begun to pitch in and lend ...
Read More »Palestinians Demonstrate at Checkpoint Near Tulkarem
Yesterday, 26th of July, the Israeli military set up a so-called “flying checkpoint” – made up of three jeeps and a couple of cement blocks – on the busy road from Ramallah to Tulkarm between the villages of Beit Iba ...
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