Tag: Bulldozers

  • Army violently represses Kafr Qaddum demonstration

    21th June 2013 | International Women’s Peace Service | Kafr Qaddum , Occupied Palestine On Friday, June 21, the residents of Kafr Qaddum gathered for the weekly demonstration following the Friday prayer. Many residents were prevented from attending the prayer, as 60 soldiers entered the village before the demonstration even began. At approximately 11:30, people…

  • Kafr Qaddum – Blocked from life’s basics; pushed back when doing something about it

    24th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine Tear-gas showered down on villagers in Kafr Qaddum yesterday, nearly blinding one media worker in a direct hit and nearly suffocating a child as villagers protested the roadblock that has hindered their lives for a full decade. The villager’s own stone…

  • Prelude to land theft: a livelihood trashed in Aqraba

    21st May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Aqraba, Occupied Palestine Seven hundred olive trees were uprooted first thing in the morning of 16th May while a bulldozer got to work destroying the farmer’s concrete water storage facility and surrounding dry stone walls and fences in Aqraba. The Israeli army, who did some…