Tag: Huwwara

  • Palestinians banned from land as Route 60 expands

    Palestinians banned from land as Route 60 expands

    17th november 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Huwwara team | Burin, occupied Palestine On monday morning, Mahmoud Yasser Eid, a 22 year-old palestinian from the village of Burin, was stopped by the Israeli forces as he went to pick olives with his mother, near the Huwwara checkpoint. The land, that the family has been harvesting…

  • Military places curfew on Huwwara village, arrests two young men, and raids Palestinian homes

    Military places curfew on Huwwara village, arrests two young men, and raids Palestinian homes

    5th November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Huwwara, Occupied Palestine On Friday the 31st of October, approximately 300 Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Huwwara, near Nablus. They fired tear gas canisters and stun grenades, seemingly in attempt to clear the streets of people, and declared the village to be a closed military…

  • Zionist settlers burn Palestinian olive grove

    Zionist settlers burn Palestinian olive grove

    22nd October 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Huwwara, Occupied Palestine This morning at approximately 09:30, settlers from the illegal settlement of  Yizhar set fire to a Palestinian olive field above Huwwara village, just outside of Nablus. The settlers set the land on fire from the top of the hill. People from the village…