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Location : Palestine / Nablus .
Date : 23/06/2009
Camera : canon 400 D
When we first came to Nablus, the Israeli army was still there and the city was closed. Someone had spray painted over most of the signs in Arabic, so only the Hebrew and English names were left. The star of David had also been spray painted on many houses.
location : Nablus
Date : 23/06/2009
Camera : Canon 400 D
thank you my brother Jafar & my niece Mayoos
To my dear friend Majeed Almahoze this photo was taken from Al Najah University - you can see the campus mosque with the view of Nablus in the background
It is the eastern Part of Nablus, i was walking back from my uncle house so i had to stop to take this picture.
AV 3.5
shutter speed 4 second
City of Nablus, one of the oldest cities in the world , the city location is in the North Of Palestine , may be the old of Nablus is 6000 years old
this saturday At 11 Am , Nablus Wait to made the bigest sweet (kunafa ) in the word , and that add in guinness , 75 meters Long , all invite to see and eat Saturday ..:)
Date : 13/07/2009
Time : 11 Pm
Camera : canon 400 D
lenses : 18-55
Portrait of a young guy in the streets of Nablus
April 2011
Nablus is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately 63 kilometers north of Jerusalem, with a population of 126,132. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center.
After the loss of the city to British forces during World War I, Nablus was incorporated into the British Mandate of Palestine in 1922, and later designated to form part of the Arab state of Palestine under the 1947 UN partition plan. The end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War saw the city instead fall to Jordan, to which it was unilaterally annexed, until its occupation by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War.
Today, the population is predominantly Muslim, with small Christian and Samaritan minorities. Since 1995, the city has been governed by the Palestinian National Authority. Jewish immigration did not significantly impact the demographic composition of Nablus, and it was slated for inclusion in the Arab state envisioned by the United Nations General Assembly's 1947 partition plan for Palestine. After Israel declared its independence, Transjordan occupied Nablus. Thousands of Palestinians fleeing towns captured by Israel settled in refugee camps around Nablus and in Nablus itself. Three such camps still located within the city limits today are Ein Beit al-Ma', Balata and Askar.
The Six-Day War ended in a swift Israeli victory and the occupation of Nablus. Many Israeli settlements were built around Nablus during the 1980s and early 1990s. Jurisdiction over the city was handed over to the Palestinian National Authority on December 12, 1995, as a result of the Oslo Accords Interim Agreement on the West Bank.
Nablus was a central flashpoint of violence between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian militant groups. The level of violence dramatically increased from 2000 at the start of the Second Intifada. The city and the refugee camps of Balata and Askar constituted the center of "knowhow" for the production and operation of the rockets in the West Bank.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 522 residents of Nablus and surrounding refugee camps, including civilians, were killed and 3,104 injured during IDF military operations against militants during the Second Intifada from 2000 to 2005. Israeli soldiers and settlers have also been killed by Palestinian militants from Nablus. In April 2002, following the Passover massacre — an attack by Palestinian militants that killed 30 Israeli civilians attending a seder dinner at the Park Hotel in Netanya — Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield, a major military operation in which Nablus was one of the main targets. At least 80 Palestinians were killed in Nablus during the operation and several houses were destroyed or severely damaged. The IDF also imposed a curfew on Nablus lasting between April 4 and April 22. IDF forces reentered Nablus during Operation Determined Path in June 2002, remaining inside the city until the end of September. Over those three months, there had been more than 70 days of full 24-hour curfews.
According to Gush Shalom, IDF bulldozers caused damage to al-Khadra Mosque, the Great Mosque, al-Satoon Mosque and Greek Orthodox Church in 2002. Some 60 houses were destroyed, and parts of the stone-paving in the old city were damaged. The al-Shifa hammam was hit by three rockets from Apache helicopters. The eastern entrance of the Khan al-Wikala (old market) and three soap factories were destroyed in F-16 bombings. The cost of the damage was estimated at $80 million US.