Assira al Quiblya is a West Bank village up on a hill between Huwwara and Nablus. But unfortunately, it is not sufficiently uphill enough to be free and safe from the Yitzhar settlement. This settlement, one of the most active ...
Read More »Settlers set fire to Palestinian chicken farm
20th April 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team| Madama, Occupied Palestine On Friday 18th April, during the night in the village of Madama, settlers from a nearby illegal settlement entered a Palestinian farm and sat fire to a newly ...
Read More »Illegal extremist settlement of Yitzhar expands during ‘peace talks’
28th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Asira al Qibliya, Occupied Palestine Around 80 settlers and soldiers brought diggers and steam rollers near the Asira water project and started to flatten ground on private Palestinian land. Residents ...
Read More »Settler harassment continues in Asira’s Water reservoir project
4th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Asira al Qibliya , Occupied Palestine This week, settlers from Yitzhar attacked the Asira village water project and its workers, once again. Israeli occupation forces who went to the scene ...
Read More »Arson attack on Asira village by illegal settlement of Yitzhar
30th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Asira, Occupied Palestine At 1.30pm today, 30th May, thirty settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar trespassed on to land above the village of Asira, lighting fires and throwing rocks ...
Read More »Ongoing attacks result in injuries and 17 miscarriages in Urif, West Bank
29 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus, Occupied Palestine The Israeli army and illegal settlers have been, on almost daily basis for the past two months, invading and attacking the village of Urif in the West Bank. A local ...
Read More »The most violent settlement in the West Bank encroaches on Asira al Qibliya
27 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Asira al Qibliya, Occupied Palestine According to OCHA statistics Yizhar is the most violent settlement in the whole of the West Bank with 70 recorded incidents in 2011 alone. Every week there is ...
Read More »Continued harrassment of the Nasser family in Madama
27 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Madama, Occupied Palestine A month after unprovoked settler and army attacks, the victim of severe violence Mamun Nasser remains in Israeli prison. The arrest of yet another member of the Nasser family, Amir ...
Read More »Big punishments for small hopes
by Haroun Zeitoun 26 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Burin, Occupied Palestine This morning in Burin, the village that sits in the valley between the Yizhar and Bracha colonial settlements just south of Nablus, saw a small yet high-spirited ...
Read More »Settlers attack Urif and Qusra with guns, knives and stones
January 10th, 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Urif and Qusra, Occupied Palestine As the villages around Nablus woke up to the rare scene of a snow-covered landscape, Israeli settlers violently attacked groups of youngsters playing with snow in the villages ...
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