Tag: Nablus

  • Negotiating Daily Life: Land Access and Checkpoint Encounters

    by Steph, November 6th During this last week while I’ve been picking olives in the Nablus area with Palestinian families and occasionally encountering/confronting soldiers, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of negotiation in daily life here in Palestine, and also about the role of internationals in that. I often find myself in situations…

  • “The only way to live” — fear and fury in Urif and Asira

    by ISM Nablus Urif, 9th November There is chaos in the air. A couple of the young boys have climbed up to one of the upper ridges of the hillside and are scorching the earth with a small blowtorch — an ancient agricultural technique designed to improve the quality of the soil. “Come down immediately!…

  • Scottish Rabbis volunteer threatened with deportation during olive harvest

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Theresa McDermont, a volunteer from Scotland who came to pick olives with Palestinian farmers and Israeli rabbis today sits in an Israeli detention cell, awaiting deportation. She is not being charged with any crime. Theresa, a post office worker, has been detained since the 31st of October. She will have a court…

  • The blood of the martyrs will fertilize the earth

    by Schlomo Bloom, November 6th The finished mural, I wonder how long it will remain free of bullet holes? On and off for the past few weeks I have been working on a mural in Balata refugee camp. The mural is to commemorate the approximately 350 martyrs from Balata since the beginning of the second…

  • Checkpoint closed for eight hours after IOF soldier shoots Palestinian

    by ISM Nablus, 5th November Yesterday, the checkpoint known to Nablusians as “Sabatash” was closed to everyone trying to pass it in both directions. Located at a narrow bend in the road, flanked by a steep mountainous slope and a watchtower overlooking an olive grove valley running beside a military road, this checkpoint is notorious…