Tag: Nablus

  • Tree planting in Balata and Askar refugee camps, Nablus

    On Saturday, the 29th of September ISM activists planted around a hundred trees in the martyr cemetery at Balata refugee camp in Nablus. Twenty to thirty volunteers from the H.W.C. (Health Work Committee) and the Tanweer Center in Nablus joined in the planting. The Ministry of Agriculture provided the trees. This continues the cooperation between…

  • Machsom Watch: Huwara Checkpoint, September 29th, 7 pm

    Observers: Vivi Suri, Tamar Goldschmidt, Hava Halevi, Aya Baker Kaniuk (reporting) Saturday, the Ramadan month of fasting. The checkpoint is as it always is. Cruel and mean. The soldiers, as all soldiers are. Young, cruel and racist. Their minds poisoned in the name of their parents and country and needs of the herd, to check…

  • Ha’aretz: Twilight Zone – The children of 5767

    By: Gideon Levy September 28th, 2007 It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than in many previous years. However, it was still a terrible year: 92 Palestinian children were killed (fortunately,…