Archive for the 'Salfit Region' Category

IWPS: For 7 hours, Israeli soliders resfuse to return Palestinian ID cards

Sunday, April 1st, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Reports, Salfit Region

Soldiers refuse to return ID cards after detaining three young men
for over seven hours following Land Day demonstration

by Gemma and Nova, IWPS, 1 April 2007

On March 30, 2007, three young men from the village of Rafat were arrested by the Israeli Forces following...

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On Land Day, 3 Palestinians Arrested in Village of Rafat

Friday, March 30th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Salfit Region

On Land Day, 3 Palestinians Arrested in Village of Rafat
from IWPS, March 30

Update, March 31
The three men were released around 10pm last night, with no reports of abuse by the boys while in Israeli custody.

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RAFAT,...

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IOF invasions into Marda village

Sunday, February 18th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Salfit Region

from a report by IWPS,

On Wednesday 14th February at 6.30 pm, IOF jeeps invaded Marda village in Salfit region and stopped in front of the mosque. At 7.00 pm, IOF soldiers approached two young men and took their identification cards. It was reported that the IOF...

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Palestinians ethnically cleansed from the road

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Nablus Region, Salfit Region, Tubas Region, Jericho Region

by the ISM media team, February 13th

In recent months Occupation authorities have escalated their policy of issuing fines to Palestinian drivers at certain checkpoints without reason. At Za’atara checkpoint near Salfit today, as well as preventing...

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Kufr Ein residents terrorized by IOF raids

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Salfit Region

from reports by IWPS,

At about 2.30am in the morning of December 30th, villagers of Kufr ‘Ein , who live near to the mosque, were awakened by sound bombs and the sound of live shots being fired into the air. At this moment there was no electricity in the village. Israeli Occupation Force...

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Checkpoint Humiliation

Monday, December 18th, 2006 | Posted in Journals, Nablus Region, Salfit Region

The other day as we were travelling through Zatara checkpoint between Ramallah and Nablus, I witnessed a particularly disgusting display of power by the Israeli army. An extremely public humiliation of a woman, who was taken out of a shared taxi and had her ID and phone removed. She was fighting back the tears, trying to retain her dignity, but...

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IOF attacks Marda village, Salfit region

Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | Posted in Salfit Region

by International Women’s Peace Service

Around 10:30p.m. on Thursday 28th September 2006 the Israeli army entered the village of Marda with at least seven armoured vehicles, including jeeps, hummers and a truck. IWPS volunteers present in the village witnessed...

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Salon.com: “Up Against the Wall”

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 | Posted in Press clippings, Bil'in Village, Salfit Region, Budrus Village, Biddu Village, Bethlehem Region

Israel continues building a mammoth barrier in the name of border security. Opponents charge that it’s carving more land for Jewish settlements — and assaulting Palestinians’ human rights.

by Rachel Shabi, Salon.com

Sept....

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IWPS: 19 year old man shot at Huwarra checkpoint

Thursday, August 17th, 2006 | Posted in Reports, Salfit Region

12 August 2006

Today the International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS) visited a family in Haris whose son had been shot after he passed through Huwarra checkpoint on the way out of Nablus. Their son Salem is 19 years old and has permission to travel to Nablus. He works at Barqan Industrial Complex....

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Two Houses Demolished in Brukin, Salfit

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 | Posted in Press Releases, Salfit Region

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30 May 2006: Two houses were demolished by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the village of Brukin, Salfit, West Bank, on Tuesday morning, 30 May, 2006. They were among 70 houses that have received demolition orders, according to Brukin’s Mayor Ekremah Samara. The village, which has lost 8000 dunums of land to...

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