Tag: Kafr Qaddum

  • Weekly protest at Kafr Qaddum met with exceptional violence

    Weekly protest at Kafr Qaddum met with exceptional violence

    24th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine On Friday 24th January, 2014, the weekly demonstration in Kafr Qaddum, in the Qalqilya district, was repressed by excessive force, to a much greater extent than on most Fridays. By 11:00 a.m., clashes had already broken out between local youths and Israeli soldiers…

  • One Palestinian arrested during demonstration in Kafr Qaddum

    One Palestinian arrested during demonstration in Kafr Qaddum

    03rd January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine Today, at the weekly Kafr Qaddum demonstration, Israeli soldiers and border police violently suppressed the protest and arrested a Palestinian citizen. Clashes between Palestinian youth and Israeli soldiers erupted after the Friday prayer when the Israeli military began bulldozing pre-made stone barricades…

  • 85-year-old Saeed Ali Gasser from Kafr Qaddum, killed by suffocation from tear gas

    85-year-old Saeed Ali Gasser from Kafr Qaddum, killed by suffocation from tear gas

    02nd January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine Yesterday, Wednesday 1st January, Israeli forces raided the village of Kafr Qaddum during an anniversary march to commemorate the start of the Fatah movement, 49 years ago. Israeli soldiers and border police shot many tear gas canisters towards the villagers and into…

  • UPDATED: Murad Eshtewi, head of the Popular Committee of Kafr Qaddum, has been arrested

    UPDATED: Murad Eshtewi, head of the Popular Committee of Kafr Qaddum, has been arrested

    21st December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine Second Update 24th December:  A military judge has ruled that Murad Eshtewi will be released from prison with a 7000 NIS bail. Nery Ramati, Murad’s lawyer, argued that it was unreasonable to continue to hold Murad for interrogation as he had not been…

  • Israeli forces injure 8 Palestinians during aggressive Kafr Qaddum demonstration

    Israeli forces injure 8 Palestinians during aggressive Kafr Qaddum demonstration

    15th November 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine Today, Friday 15th November, the Israeli army detained four children before the weekly demonstration in Kafr Qaddum. Israeli soldiers then invaded the village during the protest, firing many tear gas canisters and injuring 8 Palestinians. At approximately 9:00 this morning, a…