Israel to hold military exercise in Nablus villages Beita, Huwwara, Awarta, Osarin, and Aqraba

Ma’an News Agency |  04/11/2013 18:37 (Photo: MaanImages/File) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces will hold military training exercises next week in an area south of Nablus, a local official said. The mayor of Huwwara village, Moan al-Dmeidi, told Ma’an that Israeli authorities sent a letter to the local municipality informing it of the exercises. The […]

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Asides cars to kill, illegal Israeli settlers now also use bulldozers to annex more Palestinian land

[ PIC 23/09/2013 – 06:38 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers used bulldozers to level dozens of dunums of agrarian land in Yanun hamlet to the south of Nablus city on Monday morning. Ghassan Daghlas, an activist against Israeli land grab in northern West Bank, said that the settlers bulldozed more than 20 dunums of […]

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Zionist settlers attack a Palestinian farmer, kill sheep in Aqraba

2nd August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Aqraba, Occupied Palestine At 530pm on July 30th three settlers from the illegal settlement of Itamar violently attacked a farmer from the village of Aqraba, south east of Nablus. Four farmers from the village  had spent the day grazing their more than 500 sheep on […]

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Photos | Prelude to land theft: a livelihood trashed in Aqraba ~ by @ISMPalestine

#NAKBA65  65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! 21st May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Aqraba, Occupied Palestine Seven hundred olive trees were uprooted first thing in the morning of 16th May while a bulldozer got to work destroying the farmer’s concrete water storage facility and surrounding dry stone walls and fences in Aqraba. […]

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Turtles in Aqraba

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map Jonas Weber | 10 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Planting trees in Aqraba “Hurry up you turtles!” Wael yelled in the distance. He had suddenly turned this walk into some kind of contest. We skipped across the rocky landscape of Palestine, […]

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Settlers attack the villages of Aqraba and Awdla to the south of Nablus

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map [ 19/11/2011 – 11:13 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– More than fifty settlers at midnight Thursday stormed the villages of Aqraba and Awdla, to the south east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and wreaked havoc in both villages. Local sources said that […]

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Four days of settler violence in Burin and the Nablus area

03 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Construction of Zeid Amran’s house On Friday afternoon at around 4.30 pm, three young men from the village of Burin, south of Nablus, were attacked by two settlers while picking “akoob” (a plant used in cooking) in the mountains. The men were around 200 meters away from the […]

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Settlers attack Aqraba farmland

March 22, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Settlers on Tuesday destroyed agricultural land owned by Palestinian villagers near Nablus in the northern West Bank. The Agricultural Work Committees Union recently planted hundreds of seedlings on the land around Aqraba village. Residents of the illegal Itamar settlement uprooted the seedlings and destroyed water wells in the area, […]

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