Tag: Nablus

  • BBC: “Harvest Hostilities”

    In the following article the BBC misleadingly writes of “violent clashes” and “frequent clashes” between Palestinian farmers and Jewish settler colonists and the IOF during the olive harvest. However, later in the article the tear gas and live bullets used by the IOF are mentioned with no mention of any violence being used by the…

  • Thirty Days in the Nablus Region

    by ISM Nablus, October 19, 2006 The Nablus region, with its three refugee camps, many villages, Old City and sprawling city center has been a scene of consistent Israeli violence. Such violence has accelerated since the beginning of the Palestinian Intifada in September 2000. Nablus has become synonymous with nightly invasions, targeted assassinations, home demolitions…

  • Nablus Villagers Face Impediments to Olive Harvest from Israeli Soldiers

    by ISM Nablus, 18th October Qusin is a small picturesque village located in the green rolling hills just west of Nablus city and adjacent to the Israeli colony of Qedumim. Since the height of the Al-Aqsa intifada, the village has been spared overtly violent military incursions, but there are many other problems that prevent the…