The village of Al Funduq, 15km from Qalqilia, is today under curfew. For the first time in the history of the village the 700 residents are forbidden from entering the streets, driving cars, and are subject to random house searches. ...
Read More »Israeli Army Invades School in Azzoun
This morning an Israeli jeep containing 4 Israeli soldiers invaded the school grounds of the Azzoun High School – contravening international law. Jeep #401 entered the school grounds at approximately 8:30am, at the end of the second lesson, driving through ...
Read More »More Beatings and Arrests in Azzoun (Updated)
On Friday 9th November, Oday Abdel Odeh was arrested whilst attending his uncle’s wedding in the village of Azzoun, near Qalqilya. Oday, sixteen years old and from the nearby village of Kafr Thulth, was standing with a group of friends ...
Read More »Azzoun Under Curfew
Tonight the village of Azzoun is once again under curfew. For the sixth time in eleven days, residents have been forced to stay indoors, under threat of extreme punishment. At 4pm Israeli soldiers entered the town, arresting four youths, and ...
Read More »Jayyus Village Demonstrate Against Theft of Land, Life, and Culture
Jayyus, September 8th On Saturday, the 8th of September, 50 villagers from Jayyus and the surrounding area met together with an equal number of Israeli and international activists to demonstrate non-violently against the Apartheid Wall. They gathered at one of ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
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