Tag: Nablus

  • More Settler Intimidation in Nablus Olive Harvest

    by ISM Nablus, 30th October At 8am this morning two international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) accompanied a Palestinian family from the village of Azmut, just east of Nablus, to their olive groves. This land has found itself within close proximity to the illegal Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh, meaning that the family has been unable…

  • Tales of the prophets: harvesting in the shadow of the settlements

    by ISM Nablus, Monday 30th October Itamar settlement and settler road on the land of Rujeeb village “He turned his walking-stick into a giant snake that swallowed up all the others’ tiny snakes. And so the Pharoah knew that Moses was a prophet and not just a simple magician.” Rada, 29 years old, is telling…

  • The Independent: “Music therapy: The pied piper of Balata”

    by Donald Macintyre, 30th October The Palestinian children of the West Bank grow up amid the sounds of guns and bombs. But a project inspired by Professor Nigel Osborne is determined to help them listen to a different tune. Donald Macintyre reports The Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University, and one of Britain’s foremost…