Tag: Qalqilya

  • Action Alert: Demonstration in Jayous 10am 8th September

    Jaayus, Saturday Sept. 8th at 10:30 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Saturday, September 8th, a demonstration has been organized in the village of Jayous. As the olive season soon begins, more than 30 work permits the local villagers need to access their lands have been denied “because of opposition on the part of security elements.” Many…

  • Haaretz: The fruits of his efforts lie on the wrong side of the separation fence

    By Meron Rapoport Sharif Omar Khaled had a little bit of satisfaction last week. His guava trees bore fruit for the first time. They had ripened relatively early, he said, because of the hot weather. Sharif Khaled, who is known to everyone as Abu Azzam, looks like a moshavnik from days gone by. True, he…

  • Video: Israeli Soldiers Beating Palestinian Children at a Checkpoint

    The footage Footage captured by an independent American filmmaker on Wednesday 15 August, at the Ras at-Tira checkpoint in the Qalqiliya District, and shows the three children attempting to cross the checkpoint in a horse cart when they are stopped by two Israeli soldiers. The female soldier is clearly shown beating the boys before spitting…

  • Israel 2007: Worse than Apartheid

    by Ronnie Kasrils | Mail & Guardian Travelling into Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza Strip, which I visited recently, is like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency. It is chilling to pass through the myriad checkpoints – more than 500 in the West Bank. They are controlled by heavily armed soldiers,…

  • Forcing Transfer in Izbat at-Tabib

    Forcing Transfer in Izbat at-Tabib by the ISM Media Crew Izbat at-Tabib, Qalqilya district The Palestinian village of Izbat at-Tabib is situated a few kilometers east of Qalqilya and north-west of the town of Azzun, between the large illegal Israeli settlements of Alfe Menashe and Ma’ale Shomeron, in Area C. The majority of the village…