Tag: Nablus
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Five Palestinian farmers and two internationals detained while trying to work lands near Israeli military camp
30 April 2009 On the 30th of April, five farmers from the village of Asira ash-Shamaliya and two international solidarity activists were detained while trying to farm their lands close to an Israeli military camp. Asira ash-Shamaliya is a Palestinian village north of the city of Nablus. An Israeli military camp was built more than…
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Azzun cut off from Palestinian infrastructure
International Women’s Peace Service 18 April 2009 The status quo of Azzun – a town with 12.000 inhabitants – is miserable and is getting worse in the distant future. Three big settlements were partly built on Azzun land so that the current city center is now circumscribed from the east, west and north western side.…
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12 Palestinians injured after settler rampage in Urif village
24 April 2009 At around 5pm on Friday, the 24th of April, nearly 30 masked settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Yizhar rampaged through the Palestinian village of Urif, southwest of the city of Nablus. The armed settlers first gathered at the boys’ high school in the village and proceeded to break doors and…