School in a Cage
From a meeting the headmaster of the coeducational High School in Burin We arrive in the schoolyard, surrounded by big metal fences. Young boys are playing basketball. A loud “How are you? What is your name? Where are you from?”…
Olive Harvest – Impressions of Burin
During the last days we have been picking olives with different families in Burin, a Palestinian village south of Nablus. Our time in the fields was spiced with cooking Arabic coffee and frying eggs over small fires, eating homemade hummus…
Death of Fouad Eid, a Wonderful Activist and a Friend
A few days ago devastating news arrived via Facebook about the violent death of a young guy form Burin called Fouad Eid. I met Fouad in Palestine in October’15 when he coordinated the international presence of ISM/IWPS volunteers in…
A prayer under an olive tree
Nsaf wakes up early this morning to get ready for her daily hour walk to her olive grove. Earlier in the week some IWPS volunteers joined her, a mother-of-nine now 61 years old, to pick olives with her husband, her…
Unprecedented Settlement Expansion in Salfit
Kufr Dik and Bruqin – an update on the ongoing cycle of water shortages, settler sewage problems, and unprecedented settlement expansion. “This [Netanyahu’s] government has destroyed all hope of peace”, resident of Kufr Dik The water issue The two villages…
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,…
Army Steps Up Violence Against Deir Istiya Villagers
Bjork Vilhelmsdottir reporting form Deir Istiya: The Israeli military has taken to the next level threats against the three families living on the outskirts of Deir Istyia village in the Salfit region of the West Bank. At the end of…
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…
IOF Invade Homes, Threaten Families with 9 Children in Deir Istyia
IWPS hometown Deir Istyia, in Salfit district, is an agricultural village of about 4000 inhabitants . The Salfit district has 19 villages and 24 settlements. Land confiscation (http://iwps.info/…/deir-istiya-informed-colonial-land-confi…) is ongoing in the area and many of the settlements are growing,…
Kfer Dik- Violent Early Morning Raid
In the early hours of this morning (19 November 2015) over one hundred Israeli soldiers invaded Kafr Ad-Dik village in the Salfit region of the West Bank. They split into groups, raiding and vandalizing 15 houses in the As-Suqqiya area…
Picking Olives…Picking Hope
Little Mohammed has gone to the field this morning with his father Amjad and two IWPS activist-volunteers to harvest olives. The sun is bright and the air is fresh. Amjad is working hard and fast to pick olives from his…
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…
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