Tag: Nablus

  • Breaking Palestine’s peaceful protest

    Neve Gordon | The Guardian 23 December 2009 Palestinians have a long history of nonviolent resistance but Israel has continuously deployed methods to destroy it “Why,” I have often been asked, “haven’t the Palestinians established a peace movement like the Israeli Peace Now?” The question itself is problematic, being based on many erroneous assumptions, such…

  • Demonstration outside Jelemeh prison in solidarity with arrested Palestinian grassroots activist

    16 December 2009 A demonstration was held outside Jelemeh prison in Haifa today in protest against the arrest and imprisonment of grassroots activist Wa’el Al Faqeeh Abu As Sabe. Demonstrators planted olive trees and hung Palestinian flags and banners outside the prison gates, calling for the release of Palestinian political prisoners. The night that the…

  • No freeze on Palestinian suffering

    Seth Freedman | The Guardian 14 December 2009 Within minutes of our arrival in Tuwani, in the south Hebron hills of the West Bank, an army Jeep rolled into the village and shattered the mid-morning tranquillity. “We’re turning this place into a closed military zone,” announced the stern-faced commander to anyone within earshot. Brandishing his…

  • Demonstrators to protest arrest of prominent grassroots activist Wa’el Al Faqeeh Abu As Sabe

    13 December 2009 For immediate release: A demonstration will be held outside Jelemeh Prison in Haifa at 12pm, Monday 14 December 2009, to protest the arrest of prominent grassroots Palestinian activist Wa’el Al Faqeeh Abu As Sabe. Al Faqeeh, renowned throughout the Nablus region for his tireless campaigning and non-violent action against the Israeli occupation,…

  • Israeli forces arrest four prominent grassroots activists during Nablus night raid

    9 December 2009 The Israeli military kidnapped nine Palestinians from the Nablus region in the early hours of Tuesday, 9 December 2009, including four leading civil society activists. The Israeli army in the force of 200 armed soldiers invaded several districts of Nablus city, refugee camps and a nearby village in a coordinated operation last…