Tag: Settlers

  • Palestinian school set on fire

    Palestinian school set on fire

    21st September 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team |As-Sawia, Occupied Palestine On the evening of the 10th September, unknown assailants broke into the As-Sawia Secondary School, forced open the door and set the school on fire. Bedouins living close to the school saw the fire and alerted the fire brigade. By the time it was put…

  • Israeli settlers and soldiers invade Balata refugee camp

    Israeli settlers and soldiers invade Balata refugee camp

    20th September 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Occupied Palestine On the 17th of September, under heavy Israeli army protection, Israeli settlers from nearby illegal settlements entered Nablus with the aim of praying at Joseph’s tomb in Balata refugee camp. Just after midnight, the Israeli army closed the district that surrounds the monument, blocking all the…

  • Video: Free the bubbles

    Video: Free the bubbles

    30th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine At approximately 1 pm on July 28th, international volunteers made giant bubbles with Palestinian children to celebrate Eid, in Tel Rumeida, al-Khalil (Hebron). Several settlers passed by in their cars and were visibly annoyed, and two stopped to complain to the Israeli soldiers…

  • VIDEO: Israeli soldiers and settlers attack Palestinians and ISM volunteers in Hebron

    VIDEO: Israeli soldiers and settlers attack Palestinians and ISM volunteers in Hebron

    2nd July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Tel Rumeida, Occupied Palestine For the past two days in al-Khalil (Hebron) Israeli soldiers have stopped and searched many Palestinians in Tel Rumeida. At approximately 22:00 two nights ago, a colonial settler began aggressively photographing Palestinian children who were playing football in the street on Tel Rumeida hill.  Two ISM activists began…

  • Collective punishment in Palestine

    Collective punishment in Palestine

    22nd June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement| Occupied Palestine On Thursday 12th of this month, three settler youth disappeared while hitchhiking in the Hebron area of the West Bank. No Palestinian group or organisation has taken responsibility for the disappearance. 15-year-old Mohammad Dudeen was murdered in the early hours of Friday morning (20th) after he was…