Tag: Demonstration

  • Israeli soldiers carry out violent arrests at gunpoint in An Nabi Saleh

    22 July 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Five Palestinians were arrested in Nabi Saleh today, as soldiers stormed village houses without warrants. Israeli soldiers and Border Police officers implemented extremely violent measures in the dispersal of the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh. In an attempt to prevent the army from taking over the village,…

  • Access denied to Nabi Saleh

    10 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Saturday 9th July, seventy people – including thirty internationals from Sweden, France, Britain, Australia, Mexico, the United States and Denmark – demonstrated at a military checkpoint outside Nabi Saleh, after the army denied them entry into the village where Palestinians lead peaceful demonstrations weekly. The…

  • CPT: Palestinians protest expansion of Havat Ma’on Outpost; Israeli Military responds with violence

    9 July 2011 | Christian Peacemaker Team – At-Tuwani Carrying a large banner that read “We want to live in Peace and Dignity,” over one hundred Palestinians, internationals and Israeli activists marched in protest of an extension to the illegal Israeli settlement of Havat Ma’on on the morning of July 9th. In response to the…

  • Join demonstration in Kufr Qaddoum, July 1st

    28 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Tuesday June 28, ISM visited the village of Kufr Qaddoum in northern Nablus following a call for action after 6 years of no active demonstrations. Abdul Ra’ouf Hamsa, representative of the local council, and his assistant, Saqer Obwed, explained to ISM the main problem faced by the…

  • Israeli forces arrest three in Beit Ommar demonstration

    25 June 2011 | Palestine Solidarity Project On Saturday June 25, about 50 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists gathered in Beit Ommar to demonstrate against the Israeli Karmei Tsur settlement, which has annexed hundreds of dunams of Palestinian land. As demonstrators attempted to enter land belonging to Beit Ommar farmers, Israeli soldiers announced that the…