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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Two Brothers Arrested in Balata Refugee Camp
by ISM Nablus, Monday 30th October Photo credit: Ma’an News Agency About five o’clock this morning, Israeli Special Forces invaded Balata refugee camp east of Nablus. It was an unusually quiet military incursion and a large number of Balata inhabitants ...
Read More »Olive Harvest Faces Obstacles from Israeli Army: Three Nablus Region Reports from the 25th and 27th of October
by ISM Nablus affinity groups and ISM Media team Harvest Continues in Salim Despite Occupation Wednesday 25th October: With Eid celebrations complete, the annual olive harvest continued today in villages across the West bank. In the village of Salim near ...
Read More »Settler Colonists Beat Palestinian Family – One Palestinian Arrested
by ISM Nablus, October 27th Palestinian farmers were today harvesting olives on their land between the quarry at Huwarra checkpoint and Berakhya settlement. A Palestinian house stands uninhabited in the middle of this area, casting a desolate shadow over the ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Three days in Nablus: Four Killed, Six Injured, Eight Arrested
by ISM Nablus, October 11th The funeral of Abdullah Mansour, murdered by Israeli soldiers. Photo credit: AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh The Nablus region is constantly under siege by soldiers from the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). In the past three days in ...
Read More »The Times: “Rabbi leads defence of Palestinian olive groves”
The Times of London, October 9th. by Ian Mackinnon Editorial note: A reporter from The Times of London joined Palestinian farmers accompanied by ISM, IWPS and Rabbis for Human Rights volunteers for picking as recorded in this report on our ...
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