Tag: Nablus

  • Leaving Balata

    by Amanda D. I’m on the plane home. Much as I want to see people I’m not sure how to talk to them. Much as I wanted to go home and do laundry and take a bath I’m figuring out how and when I can get back. I was sad yesterday to leave the family…

  • Reporte Sobre la Invación de Nablus

    by Freddie Marrero Nunca me había encontrado tan cerca de la opresión descarnada y de la muerte como en los días recientes. En la mañana del Jueves, 1ro de agosto de 2002, fuimos informados que había prescencia militar en el campamento de refugiados de Balata en Nablus y que estaban disparando y lanzando gazes lácrimogenos…

  • Report from Nablus

    by phone from Paul in Nablus I spoke with Paul last night (about 9am in Nablus). He, Nat, Leah, Alberto, Jonathon and 2 other ISM volunteers (one from Ireland and the other from Vancouver) are currently in a home in Nablus that has been identified as being at risk of demolition. The 7 ISM internationals…

  • If I don’t write now…

    by Susan Barclay I find a few moments to write not because it is something that I even have the time to do, but more because if I don’t write now, I am afraid to lose the precious, tragic stories and sights I have witnessed in the last few weeks. During the past weeks I…

  • Life in the villages of Nablus

    By Nat After tea at Abu Fadi’s house, we went to Abu Kamel’s house to have breakfast (there was some competition between these two cousins as to whose house we were to have breakfast at), we had a tour of Salim: the water tower that had been ransacked, the house that had been occupied, the…