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Jamila Shalaldeh, accused of assaulting 13 soldiers found innocent by Ofer Military Court

Posted on: May 23, 2013

23th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Khalil, Hebron, Occupied Palestine

On Tuesday 21st May, Jamila Shalaldeh was found innocent by Ofer Military Court of assaulting 13 soldiers.

Jamila and her son Abdel were visibly nervous before her trial. Fortunately, the Israeli military judge agreed with Jamila and her family that the charges against her were absolutely absurd. He even laughed when he heard the evidence filed against her.

Initially, Jamila had been ordered to pay 7,000 shekels, later reduced to 1,750 shekels. On March 21st, the judge declared Jamila innocent and further reduced the fine to 1,000 shekels. Still, it’s disturbing … Continue reading


Updated on May 23, 2013
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UPDATE WITH VIDEO: 13 year-old boy shot at by settlers, tortured by soldiers, denied medical attention

Posted on: May 19, 2013
The young Qaryut boy here has his entire right leg in a cast, expecting a potential surgery.

19th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Qaryut, Occupied Palestine

UPDATED: The 13-year-old Qaryut boy attacked by settlers on 16 May completed an operation on his lower leg and foot on Friday and has since been released to recover at home. He also provided a full account of his attack and the time he spent in an Israeli jeep untreated and tortured for information he neither had nor could speak of due to the pain from his untreated injury.

The boy said he was alone on his land near the illegal settlement of Eli when he was attacked. His … Continue reading


Updated on May 21, 2013
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13 year-old boy shot and beaten by settlers, leg broken

Posted on: May 17, 2013
Rafedia hospital in Nablus took this X-ray that shows the Qaryut boy's broken bones from his attack.

16th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Qaryut, Occupied Palestine

At about 2pm on 16 May, a 13 year-old boy was shot at and beaten by settlers; he broke bones in his leg running from the shots at him and from being beaten. After falling, the boy was threatened with his life by settlers, but soldiers arrived and stopped the settlers from killing him before threatening the young boy with three guns while he lay injured and immobile on the ground.

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Updated on May 21, 2013
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Right of Return still key – Nakba Day demonstrations violently suppressed by Israeli forces

Posted on: May 15, 2013
Protesters standing away from the tar gas (Photo by ISM)

15th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine

By Team Ramallah

The 15th May marks the 65th anniversary of the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and the destruction – and massacre in some cases – of more than 500 Palestinian villages by Zionist forces in 1948. 65 years on, the same Zionist project of expelling the indigenous population of Palestine continues. House demolitions, land confiscation, settlement expansion, military occupation, restriction of movement and systematic bombing of the Gaza Strip are aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestine for the sake of the Zionist dream: Greater Israel.

Palestinians from different villages … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2013
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A Steadfast Prelude to the Nakba: Duheisha resists

Posted on: May 15, 2013
Tear gas is fired at the demonstrators

15th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine

By Team Khalil

On the 14th May 2013 , a day before the Nakba, on the edge of Bethlehem, a demonstration to remember the day of the catastrophe in 1948 marched from Duheisha refugee camp to the entrance of the village of Al-Khader. Demonstrators then clashed with the Israeli military between 11am and 1pm. Tear gas is fired at the demonstrators

Al-Khader was the chosen site of the demonstration as the villagers there have recently … Continue reading


Updated on May 15, 2013
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“The Israeli system has a contempt for justice” – Swedish activist being deported despite false charges and legal appeal

Posted on: May 13, 2013
Gustav Karlsson being arrested in Hebron

13th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine

By Team Khalil

UPDATE 14th May 2013: Gustav is currently being put onto a plane against his will. His lawyer tried a last minute stay on the deportation to allow to the legal process of his appeal to continue, but this was ignored by the Israeli courts. He will arrive into Stockholm later today.
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Swedish activist Gustav Karlsson is today, 13th May, being transferred to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv in preparation to be flown back to Sweden against his will. He is currently appealing his deportation legally.

Gustav was arrested … Continue reading


Updated on May 14, 2013
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Residents of Deir Jreer and Silwad resist occupation and settlement expansion

Posted on: May 10, 2013
A new road is constructed by the residents of Der Jrier

10th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Deir Jreer and Silwad , Occupied Palestine

By Team Ramallah

At around 9 am today, 150 Palestinians, accompanied by International activists, went to Deir Jreer lands to construct a new road so that local farmers could reach their lands more easily. Two bulldozers flattened the path from the nearest road to the lands located near an illegal Israeli outpost. Israeli military personnel maintained a presence on a facing hilltop but did not intervene. In addition to constructing a new road ‘ the villagers wanted to protest the confiscation of their privately owned land by Israeli … Continue reading


Updated on May 10, 2013
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12- and 11-year old Palestinian children arrested after attack by settler children – Swedish activist also arrested, resisting deportation

Posted on: May 2, 2013
12 year old Ahmad being protected by the headteacher of the Qortoba School as he was being arrested

28th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine

By Team Khalil

UPDATE 2nd May 09.30 Full video of child arrests now available from Youth Against Settlements. Swedish activist Gustav is resisting deportation to highlight the issue of child arrests in Hebron which have seriously escalated in recent months.

UPDATE 29th April 20.00 Gustav, the arrested Swedish activist is currently being held in Givon immigration prison, having had his visa revoked by the Israeli authorities. He was beaten during his arrest and hit with a gun. Soldiers conducted two mock executions by pointing guns at his head, loading them and … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2013
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12- and 11-year old Palestinian children arrested after attack by settler children – Swedish activist also arrested

Posted on: April 28, 2013
12 year old Ahmad being protected by the headteacher of the Qortoba School as he was being arrested

28th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine

By Team Khalil

UPDATE 2nd May 09.30 Full video of child arrests now available from Youth Against Settlements. Swedish activist Gustav is resisting deportation to highlight the issue of child arrests in Hebron which have seriously escalated in recent months.

UPDATE 29th April 20.00 Gustav, the arrested Swedish activist is currently being held in Givon immigration prison, having had his visa revoked by the Israeli authorities. He was beaten during his arrest and hit with a gun. Soldiers conducted two mock executions by pointing guns at his head, loading them and … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2013
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Palestinian villages protest together against illegal settlement outpost

Posted on: April 26, 2013
Tear gas fired onto the road at the end of today's demonstration

26th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Silwad, Occupied Palestine
Israeli military shooting tear gas at protesters. Photo credit: ActivestillsAround six hundred Palestinians along with a small number of international and Israeli activists participated in today’s demonstration in the lands between Silwad and Deir Jreer, in protest against both settler violence and settlement expansion. A new illegal outpost of Ofra settlement consisting of several caravans was established on the villages’ land 20 days ago. This sparked the several days of clashes, followed … Continue reading


Updated on April 26, 2013
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