Tag: Nablus

  • Israeli Soldiers Treat Palestinians like Animals at Beit Iba Checkpoint

    Human rights worker is dragged by Israeli police by M.W. On August 5, seven Palestinian men were caged in a detention structure at Beit Iba checkpoint outside Nablus. They included 6 students and one assistant dean from Al-Najah University. All 7 men were given no reason for their detention, and were detained for periods ranging…

  • Action Taken Against Two Israeli Checkpoints that Close Nablus

    by Michael Yesterday, August 2nd, hundreds of people waited for hours at Huwarra checkpoint, which is the main entrance to Nablus from the south and one of the most restrictive in all of the West Bank. Everyone was packed into the terminal, while soldiers allowed one to pass at a time, after undergoing humiliating searches…

  • Soldiers Make Residents Pay to Pass Checkpoint

    by W.B. Asira Al Shamaliyeh, a town of about 12,000 located a few kilometers north of the mountains from Nablus, has come to suffer under a new aspect of occupation. Asira has in recent months been effectively cut off from Nablus by increasing restrictions at the Sabatosh checkpoint. In addition to the weekly incursions by…