Tag: International Women’s Peace Service

  • Azzun cut off from Palestinian infrastructure

    International Women’s Peace Service 18 April 2009 The status quo of Azzun – a town with 12.000 inhabitants – is miserable and is getting worse in the distant future. Three big settlements were partly built on Azzun land so that the current city center is now circumscribed from the east, west and north western side.…

  • IWPS: Army incursion in Haris, over 150 minors and youths arrested

    International Women’s Peace Service 26 March 2009 A major military operation took place today in Haris between 2am and 5pm. Around 15 jeeps, 2 border police jeeps and vans belonging to Israeli Intelligence Shabak entered Haris and arrested around 150 people including large number of minors. A number of people reported injury by the soldiers…

  • Farmers attempting to reach their fields in Deir Istiya turned back by settlers

    International Women’s Peace Service 20 March 2009 IWPS was asked to accompany around 20 farmers, including children, from Deir Istiya to their fields in Wadi Qana. The only road leading to their fields passes from the illegal Israeli settlement of Yaqir, which is also illegal according to Israeli law. The farmers were planning on preparing…