In Solidarity with Bilal Kayed
The International Women’s Peace Service stands in solidarity with Bilal Kayed, and over 100 of his fellow prisoners in Israeli military prisons, in their hunger strike against the abusive and illegal practice of administrative detention.
Deir Istiya: No Room to Move
Deir Istiya continues to face restrictions on movement, and access to agricultural roads. Today, villagers reported continued construction on the settler road that surrounds the village, and the introduction of a flying checkpoint at the village entrance.
IWPS returns to Deir Istiya
An IWPS team is back on the ground in Deir Istiya. The jasmine trees are blooming, and the grapes are almost ready to eat! However not all is well. On our first night back, Rizziq abu Nasser, a local poet, activist, and friend of the IWPS laid out the three biggest challenges in Deir Istiya today.
Deir Istyia Demands Safe Access to Wadi Qana
Busy Highway 5066 connects parts of the illegal Settlement Bloc of Ariel with Tel Aviv. It also has become a de-facto check point for the farmers of Deir Istyia. Their agricultural land lies on the other side of Hwy 5066,…
Salfit Villagers Harrassed During Jumma Prayers
A peaceful demonstration and prayer took place yesterday, Friday 4 December ’15, on a hilltop between the Salfit’s villages Kafr ad-Dik, Bruqin, Sarta and Biddya. These villages are surrounded by the illegal Israeli settlements and industrial areas. As IWPS readers…
Kafr Qaddum – Olives, demos and collective punishment
6 November 2015 The village of Kafr Qaddum in the district of Nablus is particularly badly affected by the Israeli occupation and its apartheid system. The illegal Israeli settlement of Qedumin was established nearby in 1974 and its more recent…
Kfer Qaddum November 6 2015
A teen injured by a live fire in Kafr Qaddoum On Friday November 6, after midday prayers an 18 year old was shot in the thigh with live ammunition by an Israeli sniper on during the weekly protest . The…
No Support From the Second Floor
No Support from Second Floor Hani and Munira Amer still live with 2 of their as yet unmarried children in the home they made for their family in Mas’ha after being driven off their ancestral in al Nakba. They lived…
Deir Istiya Informed of Colonial Land Confiscation from Newspaper
Deir Istya 4 November 2015 Israel notoriously creates and expands settlements all over the occupied West Bank in contravention of international law. Not only is this blatant colonisation of Palestine and land theft from Palestinians legally and morally wrong, it…
Chronicals of Palestine: Black October
Black chronicles of Palestine, October 2015 Day in day out the news is of the murder and injury of unarmed Palestinians, many of them children, on the streets of the occupied Palestinian towns and villages. A monstrous scenario has been developed…
Friday Demonstration: Kafr Qaddum, 23 October ´15
IWPS participated in this Friday´s demonstration in Kafr Qaddum. Israeli army began firing tear gas soon after the protest march started and much of it was directed on the nearby houses, which is a usual collective punishment measure employed by…
Dier Istyia Stands Against Settler Incursion
Two setter and army incursions into Deir Istiya in one day On 20 October a bus load of illegal settlers, about 60 of them, escorted by the Israeli army, entered Deir Istiya at 3pm via an agricultural road going through…
Kufr Qaddum: A Friday Photo Essay
Please note that these are pictures and write up from Oct 3 2015 Demonstration in Kufr Qaddum: Some of these photos and the write up was posted to our facebook page but didn’t make it onto our website. Please visit us…
Illegal Settlers make Rampage Thru Palestinian Villages
Illegal settlers attack Kafr ad Dik village on Thursday 1 October 2015 Settlers living in illegal settlements in the West Bank, Occupied Palestine territories, continued yesterday (Friday) their revenge rampages across the West Bank, following the shooting of a settler…
A Critical Juncture Reached in the Jordan Valley
This would be the second time Hassan’s home was demolished- a home where he lived with his children until a recent morning when he witnessed two bulldozers, ten jeeps and around fifty Israeli occupation soldiers approaching.
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