Tag: Qalqilya

  • Buildings demolished in Qalqiliya district, 26 more to be demolished

    by IWPS, 24 May 2006, Hares (Salfit) On the 24.5.06 at approximately 7:45 a.m. the Israeli army came to the village of Funduq, Qalqilya district, with several military vehicles and three bulldozers / drills. Within minutes, they started to demolish one house and several agricultural structures between the villages of Funduq and Hajja. The house…

  • Downloadable film on The Wall

    In November 2002 the first section of the Israeli Aparthied Wall on Palestinian territory in the West Bank was under construction in the Qalqilya district. This short film looks at how the Wall will affect Palestinian communities and what locals and internationals were doing to resist the construction of the wall. Filmed by a volunteer…

  • IOF Continues Harrasing Jayyous Villagers

    By ISM local contact Today, 11th December 2005, at 2:30am, the IOF troops invaded the west bank village of Jayyous. They searched houses and arrested theVice President of the Jayyous municipality, Mr. Issam Muhammad Hassan Shbaita. Mr. Shbaita is known as a local human rights activist for his work that coordinated with international organizations that…

  • We Shall Overcome

    by Mansour August 25, 2005 Today was another great picture of peace drawn by the Palestinian, international and Israeli peace activists as we protested against the wall being built on Palestinian land. I thought that, because some of us didn’t know the language of the others, we wouldn’t be able to participate in everything together.…

  • Azzoun burns

    Villagers set fire to some of their own olive trees to send a message to settlers that even if they get the land, they won’t get the agriculture that Palestinian families have spent generations cultivating. By Sarita Friday, August 12 Over 500 villagers from Azzoun demonstrated Friday, August 12, to protest the second stage of…