Ha’aretz, October 9th. by Amira Hass The Israel Defense Forces [sic] are demanding that Palestinian farmers not allow Israeli and foreign sympathizers to escort them during the olive harvest to places where military protection is needed against abusive settlers, Palestinian ...
Read More »Stones and fire in Kufr Qallil – yet the olive harvest continues
by ISM Nablus, report filed October 5th Omar Suleiman from Kufr Qallil walked through his 10 dunums of olive trees on Saturday the 30th of September, occasionally grabbing hold of a tree trunk and nimbly climbing up to inspect the ...
Read More »Plan for the Olive Harvest Campaign 2006
On the 5th of October a special meeting made up of regional ISM coordinators took place to present their plans for the olive harvest and to make everyone aware of each other’s activities so that better coordination between the regions ...
Read More »Settlers steal fruit in Kufr Qallil during olive harvest
by ISM Nablus, October 1st While harvesting with the Palestinians of Kufr Qallil, colonial settlers from Berakhya settlement were observed entering a Palestinian fruit grove and stealing fruit. The area in question is located south-east of Nablus city center, and ...
Read More »Just Another Day at Huwarra Checkpoint: Journalist Beaten, 10 Men Detained
by ISM Nablus, October 1st Huwarra checkpoint, just South of Nablus, is notorious for its volatile atmosphere and violent soldiers. Today was an example in point. Hundreds of women and men were forced into a large holding pen, with small ...
Read More »Olive Harvest Campaign 2006 Gets Underway!
by ISM Nablus The olive harvest of 2006 in Nablus has officially begun! Although not an ideal starting-date, an olive farmer from the Palestinian village of Azmut and his family who own 150 dunums of land partitioned by an Apartheid ...
Read More »Balata Invasion Fails to Dampen Festive Cheer
AP photo by ISM Nablus At dawn on September 27th Occupation forces invaded Balata camp with jeeps and an armoured bulldozer with support from Apache helicopters hovering overhead. Military vehicles heading for Balata from many directions were reported. A curfew ...
Read More »Israeli Soldiers Steal Millions of Shekels from Palestinians
by ISM Nablus At around twelve o’clock on Tuesday night Israeli special forces entered four West Bank cities in a raid against money changers and banks. By four o’clock the military had left, with up to 6 million stolen shekels ...
Read More »Beit Furik Demonstrate Against Closures
by ISM Nablus This morning a group of university students and other residents of Beit Furik joined in a non-violent demonstration against the early closure of the checkpoint separating them from Nablus city center. About 50 Palestinian and international protestors ...
Read More »Even the Garbage is Occupied
by ISM Nablus In between the Israeli military checkpoints of Beit Iba and Shave Shomeron settlement, is the Palestinian village of Deir Sharaf. The village has 3,500 residents and is dismembered by a settler-only road, an Occupation settlement and two ...
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