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Israel: Charging house demolition victims to pay costs of demolition equipment

Posted on: October 31, 2011
Charging victims of House Demolitions - Click here for more images

by Samira | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The people in the Bedouin community, Mihtawish, in Khan el Ahmar area outside Jerusalem today faced a house demolition. Three family houses were demolished, which hosted in total 39 people. 30 of them are children. One family lived in their house year round and two were soon to come for the winter. The families will now stay temporary  in tents provided by the UN, but they will have to move to another area, while the demolition order is still valid.

The families received the first demolition order 10 days ago and were … Continue reading


Updated on November 2, 2011
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Literal buzzkills: What it feels like underneath an Israeli drone

Posted on: October 31, 2011
Drone

Sami Kishawi
30 October 2011 | Sixteen Minutes to Palestine

Unmanned Israeli drones have been circling over the Gaza Strip for more than a day now. Few people outside of Gaza realize just how psychologically torturing this can be. Not only are the drones loud and incessant, but they also instill fear: the drones are able to fire a projectile at you at any given moment, no warning necessary.

An independent journalist by the Twitter handle @WelshInGaza recorded the following footage to give you an idea of what it feels like underneath an Israeli drone during … Continue reading


Updated on October 31, 2011
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Huwaida Arraf: ‘They have lies to spin; we have truths to tell’

Posted on: October 30, 2011
Huwaida Arraf with kids in Khan Younis.

Yousef M. Aljamal
30 October 2011 | Mondoweiss

Yousef M. Aljamal of Gaza’s Center for Political Development Studies interviews with Huwaida Arraf, cofounder of the International Solidarity Movement:

Aljamal: First, could you please give us a brief introduction about ISM?

Arraf: The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. We founded this international coalition to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by providing the Palestinian people with a resource — international protection and a voice — with which to resist, nonviolently, … Continue reading


Updated on October 30, 2011
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Israeli prison industrial complex in motion

Posted on: October 30, 2011

by Lisa

30 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement West Bank

During a settler tour around the old city in Hebron on Saturday, where dozens of Israelis were guided around in a sort of parade, a Palestinian man named Yousef Salim Issa Al Batch, passed by and was stopped by Israeli police. He had a small fruit knife in his pocket and had forgotten his ID. As a result he was arrested and taken to the police station at the Kiryat Arba settlement at 4:15 PM.

Earlier in the day Al Batch had been cutting apples with a small knife and forgot to … Continue reading


Updated on October 31, 2011
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Beit Ummar: Settlers throw stones from behind military tear gas

Posted on: October 30, 2011
Demonstration in Beit Ummar - Click for more images

by Anders and Aurelie

30 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, 2011
What started as a peaceful demonstration soon erupted into violence when soldiers and settlers from Karmei Tzur settlement attacked a demonstration in Beit Ummar today. The demonstration of around 30 Palestinians and internationals started from the outskirts of the village and continued through a field of olive trees to a fence which separates the village from the settlement.

A group of soldiers from the settlement entered the field and positioned themselves in front of the fence and initially … Continue reading


Updated on October 31, 2011
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Refusing to die in silence: Palestinians resist settler violence during the olive harvest

Posted on: October 29, 2011
Olive harvesters watch Israeli soldiers after being told to stop picking olives in Burin - Click here for more images

Ben Lorber
29 October 2011 | Mondoweiss

As this year’s olive harvest sends Palestinian families across all of historic Palestine out to their olive trees, a new nonviolent resistance group called Refusing to Die In Silence is patrolling the West Bank, protecting harvesters from increased settler violence.

The 2011 olive harvest, which began in early October, has seen a troubling rise in settler attacks. On October 20, OXFAM reported that Israeli settlers have already cost West Bank Palestinian farmers $500,000 this year in destroyed olive trees. In September alone, … Continue reading


Updated on November 2, 2011
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Israeli soldiers “are the law:” The detainment of children

Posted on: October 29, 2011

by Emma and Becka

29 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

On Thursday October 29, in Huwarra, around 3:00PM, soldiers detained busses and services for no apparent reasons.

The busses that were stopped were filled with children going home from school. The passengers passports were taken from them, without any explanation, and held for about 45 minutes. Two internationals on their way back from olive harvesting in the area saw what was happening and made an attempt to ease the situation.

They were met with an aggressive appearance and threatend with arrest. The soldiers showed no concern that the detained were mostly young children. They said, … Continue reading


Updated on November 3, 2011
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The Israeli Army shot at me and 3 Palestinian kids in Gaza today

Posted on: October 29, 2011
Children duck to avoid Israeli Army gunfire - Click here for more images

Radhika S.
28 October 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade

After a lovely day of drinking excessive amounts of tea with a few families in South Gaza (Faraheen and Khuza’a, to be exact), an Italian colleague, Silvia, who used to live in Khuza’a, suggested walking down the road towards the local school.  It was late afternoon, about 4:30 p.m. and dozens of children played in the area.  We walked past  slices of a giant concrete wall placed in the middle of the road.  The slivers reminded me of Israel’s Apartheid … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Israeli army shoots at children and two ISM activists

Posted on: October 29, 2011

Silvia Todeschini
28 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Witnesses in Gaza today reported an escalation of Israeli aggression in the Khuza’a – Abasan, governate of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip.  The Israeli army also shot at two ISM activists and local children.

Israeli tanks entered Gaza this morning, from approximately 7.30 to 8.30, moving from the village of Faraheen to Khuza’a.  Residents reported hearing numerous gun shots. Suzanne, who lives in the north of Khuza’a, confirmed that in recent days, Israeli tanks have entered Gaza on a daily basis. Another women, Taragi, who lives in the south of Khuza, also confirmed that … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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“With children visible” Israeli military assaults Kufr Qaddoum

Posted on: October 28, 2011
Settlers and Israeli military collaborate - Click here for more images

by Rana H.
28 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Soldiers fired teargas directly into crowd at peaceful protesters in Kufr Qaddoum. Internationals and Palestinians, including children, were gathered behind barbed wire that runs across their main road, and were not advancing when soldiers began to fire around ten canisters of tear gas at once from a short distance. Two protesters were injured while escaping tear gas, including one international woman, and many suffered from tear gas inhalation. They continued to shoot tear gas at the approximately 100 protesters for … Continue reading


Updated on November 18, 2011
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