Tag: Nablus

  • Aggressive Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Olive Trees

    Tel, Nablus region 29/08/08 On Monday, August 27th, at 2pm, a family of seven settlers, headed by the father, Moshe Zohar, came down from their illegally built house next to the Qadumim settlement, on to Palestinian land and set fire to around 300 olive trees. The Zohar family live in a house illegally built three…

  • Call to Action!!! Defiant village resfuses to be blocked off any longer.

    Sarra, Nablus region On the 25th August, Israeli Occupation Forces entered the village of Sarra to close a roadblock that had been previously opened. The Monday before, (20th August) international activists joined Palestinian villagers in removing a road block that turned a 5 minute journey to Nablus into half an hour. There was to be…

  • Sarra Residents Fight Settlements Through Non-Violent Roadblock Removal

    Sarra, Nablus Region 08/20/07 Today at 8:30 in the morning, 16 ISM human rights workers joined over a hundred local Palestinian villagers and activists in an attempt to remove a roadblock. Normally a journey from Sarra to Nablus would take five minutes, but since five years ago a roadblock has been placed, effectively making it…

  • Palestinians Prevented from Accessing Their Land Despite High Court Ruling

    Report from Nablus region Deir Al Hattab August 17th, 2007 Four international ISM human rights workers joined Palestinian activists and the local popular committee yesterday in Deir Al Hattab concerning the ongoing situation there. Deir Al Hattab is a village of 13,000 dunums that has been able to reach only 5,000 since 1986 due to…

  • Nighttime Invasions in Nablus

    15.08.2007 This morning at 7AM human rights workers rushed to the other side of Nablus in Ta’awun Street where 8 homes had been taken over by the Israeli army. They joined the medical assistance relief team that had already arrived at the scene. 10-15 military vehicles and a bulldozer were in the street. In this…