Tag: Awarta
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Settlers from illegal colony of Itamar destroy 1,500 Palestinian olive trees
12th July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Awarta, Occupied Palestine On the morning of Thursday 11th July, villagers from Awarta found that 1,500 of their olive trees had been cut down over the last month by settlers from the illegal settlement of Itamar. When they attempted to highlight this crime with media…
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Land confiscation continues in Awarta
24th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Awarta, Occupied Palestine Awarta, a small village south east of Nablus, faces constant intimidation from the Israeli army and nearby Itamar settlement. In the past month, the Israeli Civil Administration handed out two land confiscation orders to residents of Awarta. The first one, three weeks…
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Visit to Awarta
29 April 2011 | Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh We finally toured the devastated village of Awarta Wednesday and were stunned at what we saw and heard. On the way, we stopped by a tiny village called Izbet Al-tabib, a village of 350 people was served with a new order by the Israeli military to take over…
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Teenage girl released from prison: Awarta
15 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Late on Thursday afternoon sixteen year old Julia Manzen Awwad arrived back to the village of Awarta, following her release from Israeli military prison. She had been detained for five days after being arrested by force during an army raid on her family home in the early hours…
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Family of 20; women and children, locked up for 11 hours without food or water in latest Awarta raid
13 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement In the latest military raid in the village of Awarta, south of Nablus, 20 members of the Awwad family were forced to sit outside in the cold for four hours, guarded by soldiers, before they all were locked inside one room for another seven hours. During the whole…