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…
Khadoury University in Tulkarm: Studying on a battleground
IWPS, ISM and Michigan Peace Team visited, on 17 November ´15, the campus of Palestine Technical University- Khadoury in Tulkarem. Khadoury was established as an agricultural school in 1930. Nowadays it is offering education to 7.000 students in Industrial Engineering, Civil…
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…
Israeli Soldiers and Ytzhar Illegal Settlement Prevent Urif Olive Harvest
Urif families were informed that they were to have a permit to pick olives on 26th and 27th October ´15 on their land in zone B bordering but alongside zone C. Four families arrived at about 8am on 26th and…
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…
Hares Man Beaten and Tortured
International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS) Deir Istiya, Salfit Telephone: 09 251 46 44 Website: http://iwps.info Human Rights Report No.481 Human Rights Summary: A 33 year old man kidnapped by IOF while picking olives on his land Date of incidents: October 16, 2015 Place: Hares, Salfit, oPt Witnesses: His…
A Struggle to Harvest
Abu Said´s struggle to harvest on his land ´I will kill you all´, said the illegal Revava settler hurling abuses in Hebrew and in English at Abu Saed and a group of IWPS volunteers accompanying him, as he surged from…
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…
Photo Essay: Stone Against An Army (Ofer, Ramallah)
Every week, local youth confront the world’s fourth mightiest army near Ofer prison compound in Ramallah, occupied Palestine.
Tear Gas and Sound Grenades
I understand that desensitization is a process. It, in many cases, is an inevitability, especially when your emotional understanding of existence lies within brutal framework.
They shoot whatever they can. They hit
Israeli occupation army shot three young men with live ammunition today near Ofer, Israeli military compound and prison in which hundreds of Palestinians are being incarcerated.
VICTORY: Palestinian Santa Claus is free after 12 days in captivity
The boy was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation army on the first day of this year at Huwara checkpoint in Nablus, where he was handing out red roses to passing cars.
Palestine Mourns Yet Another Child Martyr
Imam is the 50th Palestinian murdered by the Israeli occupation army in the Palestine area of the West Bank this year; more than 2,000 were slain in Gaza during Israel’s genocidal assault this summer.
Protest against the closure of Al Aqsa & murder of a Silwan Palestinian
The wounding of the hate preacher Glich was followed by the army violence across occupied East Jerusalem and an Israeli military raid on a Silwan.
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