Israeli soldiers have declared a road south of Qusra, in Nablus District, a security zone, thus denying villagers access to over 500 dunams of their farmland. At 17 December 2013 , Israeli soldiers positioned themselves at various strategic points around the village. The commander then held a meeting on the farmland with the mayor of Qusra. It was in this meeting that the Israeli army officially appropriate ...

January 10th, 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Urif and Qusra, Occupied Palestine As the villages around Nablus woke up to the rare scene of a snow-covered landscape, Israeli settlers violently attacked groups of youngsters playing with snow in the villages of Urif and Qusra. Two people were both hit in the leg by live bullets fired from settlers’ guns and six peoplewerehospitalized because of rubb ...

6 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Qusra, Occupied Palestine At around 2 p.m. seven settlers attacked a farm on the outskirts of Qusra. The farm belongs to Abu Nasser and his wife Nedda who are both in their sixties. Nadda confronted the settlers after seeing them on their property cutting olive trees, warning them off with a solid wooden walking stick and a firm voice. At around 4 p.m. twe ...

Yesterday Midnight at the South of Qusra, near Jaloud Village in “Kamel Territory “ , a Group of angry Jewish settlers attacked the lands of Palestinian citizens destroying the Olive Trees. Recording to our sources, the number of destroyed trees reached 200 “ Two Hundred” Olive trees, 100 “ One Hundred” of them belongs to Mr. Fath Allah Mahmoud Abo Reideh, 25 trees to Mr. Rizq Allah Mahmoud Abo Reideh ; tre ...

  29/09/2011 Ref. No. 310/2011 Introduction The village of Qusra, near Nablus in the north of the West Bank, is a frequent target of attacks by Israeli settlers. During the last month alone, Al-Haq has monitored and documented five incidents of settler violence in or around the village, ranging from intimidation, arson, vandalising of the village’s mosque and attacks on the residents’ livelihoods, incl ...

Mr. Rami Hassan was shot 5 times by Israeli soldiers, from a distance of less than 5 meters, because he was trying to defend his land from Israeli settlers attacks. (He was shot in his arm by 3 rubber bullets, and one lead iron; and was also shot in his chest by a rubber bullet). On September 23, 2011, clashes erupted in the Palestinian village of Qusra after Israeli settlers stormed the village waving Isra ...

A history of violence in Qusra: Not 'clashes', but pogroms Source: The attack against Palestinians in Qusra yesterday was not a ‘clash,’ it was a pogrom – and, as usual, it took placeunder the aegis of the IDF. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz [caption id="attachment_4924" align="aligncenter" width="540"] IDF soldiers and settlers enter the land of Qusra, 23.2.2013 (photo: qusra.net)[/caption] A group ...