Nablus

Five artists scheduled to take part in the West Bank tour were denied entry by Israel.

New book documents how West Bank city’s buildings were destroyed by Israeli invasion.

Brown is the color of Israeli jails, says artist behind image of solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers.

Riwaq’s work has been important in bringing West Bank “throne villages” back to the center of community life.

A landmark initiative directed toward all Palestinians — in Palestine and in exile — to participate in a civic voter registration drive is intended to reclaim the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Palestinian olive farmers face violence from both the settlers and the Israeli military during the harvest season.

The Palestinian Authority cooperated with Israeli forces to host a fabricated “Peace and Freedom Day” rally in Nablus, while prohibiting local Palestinian tour guides from discussing politics with Kabbalist tourists from the US.

Few visitors make it to the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, causing the city’s tourism sector to suffer.

The brutal killing of three Palestinian men by Israeli military forces in Nablus last week on 26 December 2009 sparked grief and outrage across Palestine and brought the northern West Bank city to a standstill as thousands mourned the lethal attack. However, their voices are drowned out yet again by a well-played hand of Israel’s propaganda machine and repeated by the mainstream media. Bridget Chappell writes from Nablus.