Tag: Arrests

  • Eight shebab [youths] kidnapped in Asira al-Qibliya

    Eight shebab [youths] kidnapped in Asira al-Qibliya

    2nd June 2014 | International Women’s Peace Service | Asira al-Qibliya, Occupied Palestine At around 2 am on Sunday night, five Israeli military jeeps, three large military vehicles, and some 30 soldiers on foot arrived in the village of Asira al-Qibliya (south of Nablus). In total silence, they started entering Palestinian houses without knocking on their doors first. That…

  • Israeli army arrest and beat two Palestinian men in Hebron

    Israeli army arrest and beat two Palestinian men in Hebron

    30th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Thursday 29-May-2014. At approximately 11pm yesterday evening in al-Khalil (Hebron), ISM activists went to checkpoint 56 where they had been told there was an ongoing incident. Palestinian eyewitnesses gave the following account: About an hour earlier, two Palestinians youths were detained by the Israeli…

  • 6 beds, ink and one story

    6 beds, ink and one story

    25th May 2014 | Mariam Barghouti | Occupied Palestine Since 1967, Israel has detained around 20% of the Palestinian population and approximately 40% of Palestinian males. The majority of those arrested are transferred into Israel, where they are held and if charged will most likely serve their sentence. Although this is a clear violation of Article 76 in the…