Tag: Nablus

  • Vacation in Balata refugee camp

    by Lucretia R. I decided to take a vacation to Balata refugee camp and give art lessons to children there. I hadn’t been there since the invasion in February and I recently completed a portrait of Ibrahim, a boy who died while I was there and I wanted to give it to his family. Because…

  • Ha’aretz: “20 Hebron settlers arrested for violently harassing Palestinians”

    by Amos Harel, Eli Ashkenzi, Haaretz Correspondent and Itim. 13/06/2006 Police on Tuesday detained 20 settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron after they hurled rocks, bricks and glass bottles at Israel Defense Forces soldiers and police. A policeman was lightly wounded in the riot. The rioting took place next to a Palestinian house…

  • Israeli Military Raid ISM Apartment in Balata Camp

    The apartment belonging to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Balata refugee camp, Nablus was broken into by the Israeli military last week, May 31st. In what is an apparent act of vandalism and harassment, the military forced their way into the empty apartment and destroyed many things. A neighbor reported, “At 1am, the Israeli…

  • Tomorrow: Solidarity Meeting Against Land Confiscation in Asira, Nablus

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 1:30pm tomorrow (Wednesday the 24th of May) the people of Asira, near Nablus, will be joined by Israeli and international supporters in holding a meeting in solidarity with the owners of land that the Israeli military is about to confiscate. The aim of the meeting is to ask for an official…

  • Mohammed Saqer Escapes Death From Israeli Bullet to the Brain

    An update from ISM activists in Nablus on Mohammed Saqer (17), the boy shot in the head a week ago with a rubber-coated metal bullet by the Israeli army: After being kept in a medically induced coma for 72 hours following emergency brain surgery Mohammed successfully regained consciousness and, amazingly, is able to talk. This…