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As a new year of resistance dawns, help ISM to support the popular resistance in Palestine

Posted on: December 30, 2010
As a new year of resistance dawns, help ISM to support the popular resistance in Palestine

30 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement

When I locked arms in front of the idling bulldozer, I wanted finances to be the farthest from my mind. As M16- and tear gas-armed soldiers approached us and the Palestinian woman to my right embraced me tighter and my fellow ISM volunteer to my left reached for her medic kit, I did not want to think of money.

That day, we stopped the construction of the Apartheid Wall and the ethnic cleansing of the Al-Walaja village near Bethlehem. When the construction was … Continue reading


Updated on April 13, 2011
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Gazan scrap collector faces death during Israeli incursion

Posted on: December 30, 2010
Mahmoud Mousa Mohammed Al Sirsik, age 19

28 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

This morning Mahmoud Mousa Mohammed Al Sirsik, aged 19, was going about his daily business, collecting stones with his horse cart in the border area, east of Gaza City, when Israeli army jeeps entered the area. Seeing the danger approaching, Mahmoud tried to run away, but found himself immobilized as the army trapped him in a rain of bullets to his left and right. One bullet hit a nearby object; a piece of shrapnel bounced back … Continue reading


Updated on December 30, 2010
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List of demonstrators killed during protests against the Wall

Posted on: December 30, 2010

22. 10 December 2011:
Mustafa Tamimi, age 28
Evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva after being shot in the face by a tear gas canister at close range during the weekly protest in Nabi Saleh on 9 December 2011. He died from his wounds.

21. 1 January 2011:
Jawaher Abu Rahmah, age 36
Evacuated to Ramallah hospital after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas during the weekly protest in Bil’in on 31 December 2010. She died of poisoning the next morning.

20. 5 June 2009:
Yousef ‘Akil’ Tsadik Srour, age 36
Shot in the chest with 0.22 calibre live ammunition … Continue reading


Updated on December 13, 2011
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Beit Hanoun demonstration commemorates Cast Lead massacre

Posted on: December 30, 2010
demonstration in Beit Hanoun

28 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

A demonstration commemorating the beginning of “Operation Cast Lead” was held Tuesday in the Gazan city of Beit Hanoun. Families of victims were in attendance, as were 5 International Solidarity Movement activists. Two years have passed since the Israeli attacks on Gaza, which killed over 1400 people in just 23 days. The vast majority of victims were civilians, including 350 children, according to the United Nations and other major human rights organizations.

The Local Initiative demonstration began at the railway street in Beit Hanoun, near some of the most horrendous attacks which occurred during … Continue reading


Updated on December 30, 2010
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Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak sentenced to 3 months in prison

Posted on: December 28, 2010

27 December 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

Pollak was sentenced to three months imprisonment this morning at the Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court for his participation in a 2008 bicycle in protest of the siege on Gaza. He will begin serving his sentence on Januray 11th.

Tel Aviv Magistrates court judge Yitzhak Yitzhak convicted Pollak of illegal assembly for his participation in a January 2008 Critical Mass ride against the siege on Gaza and then sentenced him to three months imprisonment that will begin on January 11th, 2011. Pollak was the only one detained at the said protest, and was accused … Continue reading


Updated on December 30, 2010
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Fear and unrest in Silwan as soldiers surround village

Posted on: December 26, 2010

26 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement & SilwanIC

Since early this morning, Israeli forces have been surrounding the village of Silwan, creating fear among the villagers that a Palestinian family will be evicted. A new wave of unrest has overcome Silwan in the past few days, with two houses demolished on Christmas day, and clashes sweeping through the village on Friday after a young Palestinian was shot with a rubber bullet.

The Silwan Information Center claims to have received exclusive information that an Israeli court has approved the eviction of a Palestinian family, in order to resettle the soon-to-be evicted … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Santa Claus brings rubber bullets, tear gas, and arrests

Posted on: December 25, 2010
Santa Claus brings rubber bullets, tear gas, and arrests

25 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement

While the media’s attention was focused on the Christmas spectacle in Bethlehem and people were celebrating Christmas eve, the village of An Nabi Saleh, located in the Ramallah region and in the direct neighborhood of the illegal settlement Halamish, faced another reality. Yesterday’s demonstration was met by excessive violence on behalf of the Israeli military. Several people were injured; three Israeli activists and one Palestinian member of the community got arrested.

Even before the demonstration began, at about 9:00am, several Israeli jeeps entered … Continue reading


Updated on December 30, 2010
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Demonstration to re-open Shuhada Street returns to Hebron

Posted on: December 25, 2010

25 December 2010 | Youth Against Settlements

Saturday, in the city of Hebron, Israeli occupation forces suppressed an anti-settlement movement in the city to reopen Shuhada Street. Two internationals and two Israeli activists were arrested; four activists were beaten.

Seventy activists participated in the demonstration, which took place at the eastern entrance to Al-Shuhada Street, which was closed by the Israeli military in 1994.

Participants raised Palestinian flags and banners, demanding that Shuhada Street be opened, and an end to all forms of racial discrimination practiced by the occupation. They chanted—in Arabic, English and Hebrew–to condemn the closure of the street and the … Continue reading


Updated on December 30, 2010
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Festive demonstrators assailed with tear-gas in Bil’in

Posted on: December 25, 2010
Festive demonstrators assailed with tear-gas in Bil’in

25 December 2010 | Bil’in Village

At yesterday’s demonstration, a number of Bil’in’s citizens as well as a local journalist were wounded, in addition to the dozens of people who suffered choking from inhaling poison gas.

These events come during a week of international solidarity with the Palestinian people as well as the occasion of Christmas. The demonstration, organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and settlement of Bil’in, began after Friday prayers from the centre of the village and marched towards … Continue reading


Updated on December 30, 2010
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Youth arrest in Nabi Saleh

Posted on: December 24, 2010
Youth arrest in Nabi Saleh

24 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement

Three days before the first anniversary of the weekly demonstration held in An Nabi Saleh, on December the 22nd, Israeli forces arrested 23-year-old Bahaa Tamimi, a member of the community. He will face a trial in an Israeli Military court within the following week. The military has been searching for him for the past few weeks, frequently entering the village and asking for him. He was on his way to his work in Ramallah in the morning, when he was stopped by … Continue reading


Updated on December 30, 2010
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