Tag: Nablus

  • Postcards from the Edge

    by Victoria Macchi, Skin Magazine Katie Miranda’s “postcards” create visual dispatches to the American people of life, death, and innocence demolished in Palestine Two young men, backs turned, wrists bound, heads hanging – paired with anger, a mouth stretched wide open in rage and spewing hate. “You are disgusting Arabs and you should be beaten…

  • Settler attack in Urif – Israeli police do nothing

    by ISM Nablus, December 5th On Sunday the 4th of December, a group of Israeli residents of Yitzhar colony attacked farmers from Urif, a small village south of Nablus, while they were harvesting their olives on land adjacent to the village itself. This area is not normally considered to be a high-risk area due to…

  • Sabatash checkpoint closed indefinitely

    by ISM Nablus, December 5th The checkpoint commonly known as “Sabatash”, named after the Palestinian security forces that used to maintain a presence there, has been closed indefinitely for all civilian traffic bar humanitarian transportation such as ambulances and medical supply deliveries. This turn of events was suddenly announced a little more than two weeks…

  • Witness to checkpoint abuse “punished” by IOF

    by aspiringnomad December 5th On Saturday at 4pm a human rights worker based in Nablus received a call from some fellow HRWs at Huwwara checkpoint, that hundreds of Palestinians including a mother with a sick child weren’t being allowed through after the checkpoint had been closed. When the HRW arrived there were hundreds of people…

  • Nablus village schoolchildren terrorized by IOF

    by aspiringnomad, December 3rd On Tuesday a group of six human rights activists travelled to the small vallage of Sarra, west of Nablus, in response to a plea from a local school headmaster about Israeli army harassment of schoolchildren. According to countless eyewitness reports, during the last week an Israeli military Humvee would arrive in…