Tag: Asira al-Qibliya
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An interview with Hakima Hasan Motlaq on positive resistance and women’s empowerment in the village of Asira al-Qibliya
6th December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Asira al-Qibliya, Occupied Palestine Could you tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Hakima Hasan Motlaq and I am from Asira al-Qibliya where I have always lived. It is south of Nablus and I’m 35 years old and I am married. I am the head of…
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Attacks on Asira: Occupation stealing childhoods
19th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Asira al Qibliya, Occupied Palestine In the evenings of the 15th and 16th of August, the village of Asira al Qibliya was raided by Israeli occupation forces, who fired teargas canisters and sound bombs throughout the village. Residents of Asira are concerned for the children…
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Settler harassment continues in Asira’s Water reservoir project
4th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Asira al Qibliya , Occupied Palestine This week, settlers from Yitzhar attacked the Asira village water project and its workers, once again. Israeli occupation forces who went to the scene did not to stop the settlers and instead occupied the roof of a Palestinian house…
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UPDATED: Illegal settler colonisers attack workers in Asira
17th June 2013 | International Women’s Peace Service | Asira al Qibliya , Occupied Palestine UPDATE 19th June: Settlers from the illegal settlement of Yizhar again attacked the water reservoir project in Asira. At 4pm on the 19th of June fifty settlers, accompanied by over thirty Israeli soldiers trespassed onto village land and attacked locals…
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Arson attack on Asira village by illegal settlement of Yitzhar
30th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Asira, Occupied Palestine At 1.30pm today, 30th May, thirty settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar trespassed on to land above the village of Asira, lighting fires and throwing rocks at around seventy villagers who came to extinguish the flames and defend their village. Israeli…
