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…
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…
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…
Palestinians plan mass protest in Wadi Qana this Friday as Israeli forces plan to take over the area and uproot over 200 olive trees.
Palestinians will be converging en mass in Wadi Qana on Friday morning to protest the Israeli Civil Administration’s (an arm of the Israeli government) plan to take over the area as they do every year on the 20th. Last year…
Nabi Saleh Friday demonstration reaches the stolen Ein Aws (Bow Spring)
It is the first time this has happened in over a year and the children sang and chanted “Get off our land!”
Nabi Saleh Demonstration – 17/10/14
Account of Friday’s demonstration in Nabi Saleh against land theft and occupation.
Kufr Qaddum demo 26 September ’14
A skunk truck doused the main street in smelly water and the bulldozer removed several lines of stones that villagers had placed on the road to prevent army jeeps form entering the village.
Huwara: “Justice is Waiting for you, Israel”
Occupation soldiers attacked people protesting Apartheid Israel’s war on Gaza, pushing them with their shields and throwing sound grenades directly at them.
Checkpoint Action in Tulkarem: Demanding to Return
When the Zionist state denies your Right of Return to the land that has been stolen from you, you go and take it back.
Nabi Saleh Moral Victory over Israeli Army
More than 100 unarmed Nabi Saleh demonstrators, including children carrying Palestinian flags, marched from the mosque to the gas station and down the hill toward the gate of the village. The Israeli army took battle positions behind their jeeps and armored vehicles against the peaceful unarmed chanting group and a nearby donkey and its colts.
Kufr Qaddum – Day of Revolution
One popular song that is played multiple times before the demo to boost morale repeats the line “Hada al yum, al yum al thawar” – “Today is the day of revolution”!
Jordan Valley: To Exist Is To Resist
Jordan Valley: daily resistance against the occupation’s efforts to drive Palestinians from their land through house demolitions, movement restrictions, curfews, arbitrary arrest and detention, land confiscations, denial of access to water, electricity, health and education.
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