On Monday Balata residents endured their second child martyr’s funeral in five days. Fourteen year old Noor Faris Njem was shot in the head late last Wednesday evening when the Israeli army came to Balata Refugee Camp and, without warning, ...
Read More »Demonstration against a checkpoint near the village of Nazlat Issa
At noon on July 7 2005 around 80 Palestinians from the village of Nazlat Issa in the West Bank, accompanied by international activists, carried out a demonstration against a checkpoint near their village. Nazlat Issa is divided by the Annexation ...
Read More »Israeli army enforced collective punishment
By: Nijmie IWPS Date of incident: July 1, 2005 Place: Hares Witness/es: Villagers On the evening of Friday July 1, the Israeli army entered the village of Hares with two jeeps. The jeeps stationed themselves at the entrance to the ...
Read More »Israeli army takes seven boys and young men from Marda village.
By: Nijmie, IWPS Date of incident: July 4, 2005 Place: Marda, Salfit district Witness/es: Marda residents, IWPS On the afternoon of Monday July 4, the Israeli army entered the village of Marda with approximately eight jeeps. They proceed to round ...
Read More »ICAHD: “Where shall I go now?”
A wave of house demolitions in East Jerusalem Lucia and Angela of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (www.icahd.org) Again yesterday, houses were demolished in East Jerusalem. In the early morning the bulldozers moved into the neighborhood of Isawiyya, where ...
Read More »The day after
ISM Nablus July 4th It’s several days since the Israeli army’s large daylight invasion of Nablus and the surrounding refugee camps. While there is much speculation, there has been no official word on the reason for the operation. What can ...
Read More »Israeli army enters Hares village, harass youths
Written by IWPS On the afternoon of Saturday, July 2, approximately eight Palestinian children were playing at the entrance of Hares village. They ranged in ages from 1 year to 12 years old. An Israeli army jeep passed by and, ...
Read More »Israeli Army Invades Nablus
Scores of Israeli army vehicles invaded Nablus today. Surely there can be no claims of a ceasefire on the Israeli side now. Israeli armed vehicles entered Nablus just before 1pm, speeding around and firing randomly. Newly arrived international visitors, unused ...
Read More »Snipers with children in their sights
The army said the two were blown up by a Palestinian bomb planted to kill soldiers. The corpses offered a different account. In Rafah’s morgue, Asma lay with a single bullet hole through her temple; her 13-year-old brother had a ...
Read More »Who Killed Tom Hurndall? ISM London action in Camden
On the day that the verdict was given in Israel on the killer of Camden resident Tom Hurndall, ISM London held a small action pointing out that systematic Israeli government/military policy is responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians ...
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