IWPS know the Tamimi family well, and we are in awe of their resilient resistance, steadfastness, sense of justice and hospitality. Anyone who comes to Nabi Saleh to support their peaceful protests against the occupation and against the theft of…
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?”…
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…
IWPS in Palestine 2017 Urif is a Palestinian village located 13 kilometres south of Nablus. Urif has the bad luck to have an unwanted neighbour; the Yitzhar illegal settlement, with radicalized Jewish Orthodox residents known for their brutality toward all…
Yesterday IWPS and other activists picked olives with a woman and her four teenage children. Their land is located couple of hundred metres under a hilltop of the ultra orthodox Yitzhar illegal settlement, whose residents are known for their violence. …
IWPS in Palestine 2017 As on most Fridays we were on our way to Kufr Qaddoum’s weekly demo against the annexation of the village main roadleading to Nablus by the illegal Kedumim settlement built on their land (more here http://iwps.info/villages/kufr-qaddum/ ) Protests…
In Deir Istya children are playing happily in the streets trying not to see the troubles of grown ups the roadblocks or the Wall May God of all Nations give them freedom in the future a good life and Peace…
Moon, oh moon take me to Palestine, where there are mothers with tears on their chin where there are fathers with steel in their eyes where there are brothers with stones in their hands where there are sisters with hope…
On Saturday 28 October IWPS and ISM joined farmers from the Palestinian village Beit Furiq who were picking olives near the settler road leading to the nearby Itamar illegal settlement. This Orthodox settlement is known for its history of violent…
Kufr Qalil is one of the most dangerous places to pick olives north of Ramallah. Several years ago fanatical illegal settlers from Bracha descended from the top of a hill and broke a jaw of an elderly olive picker. Ever since the Kufr…
It seems that the machine gun wielding settlers are the only law in the occupied West Bank nowadays. Today, as many times before, I picked with Abu Said from the village of Haris, on his land near the illegal Revava settlement. That…
These A4 calendars are professionally created from pictures taken by our volunteers in Palestine. When you purchase a calendar you are helping us raise funds for our work in Palestine, and you raise awareness about Palestine when you display a…
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…
On the 3rd of December the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun) reported that an Israeli military court has postponed a hearing on the detention of Saleh Khawaja, Secretary of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) and a leader…
In December 2015, Shadi and his friend Ahmad were arrested at a bus stop in Jerusalem because a group of East Jerusalem settlers had called the police on suspicion of the boys being Palestinian. During the ensuing process of arrest,…
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