Tag: Nablus

  • Israeli Army Kills 15 year old Demonstrator, Injures 12, and Demolishes Houses

    To view a video of the initial violence of the Israeli military and a collective punishment click here. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nablus, Palestine–Today, August 26, 2006, in the Jabal Shamali neighborhood of Nablus, soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) launched a 16 and a half hour incursion, wherein they killed one young boy, hospitalized…

  • Israeli Army Shoots Civillians at Checkpoint, Destroys Houses in Nablus

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Israeli army shot two Palestinian civillians in the legs near Nablus this morning. The Sebehtash (17th) Checkpoint between the the Nablus village of the Assiri Ashamalya and the Centre of Nablus has been closed and Nablus has been declared a closed military zone. The army has been very vocal with racist…

  • Twelve Year Old Boy Shot in the Back in the Name of “Security”

    by ISM Nablus The Israeli military blocked the road to three villages south-east of Nablus city for nine hours on Thursday. Iraq Burin – a breathtakingly beautiful village of 1,000 people situated on top of a cliff from where, on a clear day one can see all the way to the Mediterranean (or “the white…

  • Palestinian Companies Forced to Buy Israeli Products

    by Lina Israel is constantly inventing new ways of making life in the occupied Palestinian territories ever more difficult and humiliating and several companies in the Nablus region have recently been subject to one of these policies. ISM Nablus visited but one of the affected companies – a small enterprise started in 1995, employing only…

  • Resistance and Collective Punishment in Beit Furik and Salim

    by Michael Israeli setlement and raized olive field in Beit Furik Today, August 12th 2006, in the village of Salim, near the city of Nablus, Palestinians joined one another in solidarity to resist soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) who were attempting to prevent a villager from farming his land. Later that day, a…