Category: Reports
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Action Taken Against Two Israeli Checkpoints that Close Nablus
by Michael Yesterday, August 2nd, hundreds of people waited for hours at Huwarra checkpoint, which is the main entrance to Nablus from the south and one of the most restrictive in all of the West Bank. Everyone was packed into the terminal, while soldiers allowed one to pass at a time, after undergoing humiliating searches…
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NGOs in Gaza Call Attention to Humanitarian Crisis and War Crimes
On July 30th, the Palestinian NGOs Network “PNGO” organized a demonstration in solidarity with the Lebanese people in front of the United Nations head quarter in Gaza city. Similarly, over twenty international humanitarian aid agencies and non-governmental organisations have joined forces to issue a joint appeal for action on July 27th in response to the…
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Soldiers Make Residents Pay to Pass Checkpoint
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 Nablus by increasing restrictions at the Sabatosh checkpoint. In addition to the weekly incursions by…
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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 military presence, the farmers successfully completed their tasks. The Karme Tzur settlement has been constructed…
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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 accounts, the IOF undercover soldiers entered the area in civilian clothing, in a civilian car,…