Category: Reports

  • Settler attack in Urif – Israeli police do nothing

    by ISM Nablus, December 5th On Sunday the 4th of December, a group of Israeli residents of Yitzhar colony attacked farmers from Urif, a small village south of Nablus, while they were harvesting their olives on land adjacent to the village itself. This area is not normally considered to be a high-risk area due to…

  • Sabatash checkpoint closed indefinitely

    by ISM Nablus, December 5th The checkpoint commonly known as “Sabatash”, named after the Palestinian security forces that used to maintain a presence there, has been closed indefinitely for all civilian traffic bar humanitarian transportation such as ambulances and medical supply deliveries. This turn of events was suddenly announced a little more than two weeks…

  • Witness to checkpoint abuse “punished” by IOF

    by aspiringnomad December 5th On Saturday at 4pm a human rights worker based in Nablus received a call from some fellow HRWs at Huwwara checkpoint, that hundreds of Palestinians including a mother with a sick child weren’t being allowed through after the checkpoint had been closed. When the HRW arrived there were hundreds of people…

  • Police Target Tel Aviv Anti-Occupation Rally

    by aspiringnomad, December 4th In Tel Aviv on Saturday, a peaceful rally of several hundred people demonstrating at the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine and the recent Beit Hanoun massacre was marred by the arrest of a 20-year old Israeli peace activist. The rally began peacefully with the predominantly Israeli contingent creating a convivial atmosphere…

  • Nablus village schoolchildren terrorized by IOF

    by aspiringnomad, December 3rd On Tuesday a group of six human rights activists travelled to the small vallage of Sarra, west of Nablus, in response to a plea from a local school headmaster about Israeli army harassment of schoolchildren. According to countless eyewitness reports, during the last week an Israeli military Humvee would arrive in…