Tag: Nablus

  • 500 homes invaded in Beit Furiq

    At 12:30am on Tuesday 17th June, hundreds of Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Beit Furiq, near Nablus, and imposed curfew for ten hours while they invaded and occupied approximately five hundred Palestinian homes. At 12am, the newly-installed Palestinian Authority(PA) police station was contacted by Israeli forces, with police there informed to close the station…

  • Demonstration against Beit Eba checkpoint, Nablus: ‘Summer Against Apartheid’ is launched

    On 5th June, at 11am, approximately 50 demonstrators attempted to march to Beit Eba checkpoint to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza and as part of the 3-day, Palestine-wide, launch of the ‘Summer Against Apartheid’ campaign. Organised by the Nablus Committee Against the Siege; the Women’s…

  • Mahsanmilim: Murder at Huwwara

    To view original article, published in www.mahsanmilim.com, click here This time we came to the checkpoint especially in order to gather testimony about the murder of 15.5-year old Fahmi Abd al Jawaad al Darduk (فهمي عبد الجواد الدردوك), who was shot by the soldiers at this checkpoint on Monday, May 19th 2008. After he was…

  • Settlers attack house in Asira al Qibliya, Nablus

    The home of Nahla Machmoud and Jamal Yousef Saleh Ahmad in the village of Asira al Qibliya, near Nablus, again came under attack from Israeli settlers from nearby illegal Israeli settlement Yitzhar in the early hours of Tuesday morning, as the family awoke to find their house covered in spray-painted stars of David. Six stars…

  • 16 year old boy murdered by Israeli soldiers at Huwarra checkpoint

    At 7pm on Monday 19th May, a 16 year old boy, Fihme Abdel Jawad Dardouk, was murdered by Israeli soldiers at the Huwarra checkpoint in Nablus. Israeli army spokespeople have since claimed that the boy, a volunteer in the Tanweer Cultural Enlightenment Centre, had three pipe-bombs strapped to his body. Eyewitnesses claim this is not…