Category: Reports

  • Twelve Year Old Boy Shot in the Back in the Name of “Security”

    by ISM Nablus The Israeli military blocked the road to three villages south-east of Nablus city for nine hours on Thursday. Iraq Burin – a breathtakingly beautiful village of 1,000 people situated on top of a cliff from where, on a clear day one can see all the way to the Mediterranean (or “the white…

  • Full Account of Israeli Army House Invasions in Hebron

    The following is a more detailed account of the events first publicised in yesterday’s press release. by ISM Hebron and the Tel Rumeida Project Today, August 23, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) forcibly entered and searched many Palestinian homes in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron. The checkpoints in the area were closed, and Palestinians…

  • Palestinian Companies Forced to Buy Israeli Products

    by Lina Israel is constantly inventing new ways of making life in the occupied Palestinian territories ever more difficult and humiliating and several companies in the Nablus region have recently been subject to one of these policies. ISM Nablus visited but one of the affected companies – a small enterprise started in 1995, employing only…

  • Teenage Settlers Hurl Glass Bottles at Human Rights Workers

    By Missy and Giuseppe At approximately 1:00 PM on August 17th, settler boys were throwing rocks at Palestinian people descending the Qurtaba School stairs. One international human rights worker approached the area quickly, but was told by the soldier to get away. The soldier then came yelling out of his post, and threw his chair…

  • Resistance and Collective Punishment in Beit Furik and Salim

    by Michael Israeli setlement and raized olive field in Beit Furik Today, August 12th 2006, in the village of Salim, near the city of Nablus, Palestinians joined one another in solidarity to resist soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) who were attempting to prevent a villager from farming his land. Later that day, a…