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Open letter from Gaza: Three years after the massacre, justice or nothing!

Posted on: December 27, 2011
Open letter from Gaza: Three years after the massacre, justice or nothing!

27 December 2011 | Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine
We, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make 2012 the year when solidarity with us in Palestine captures the spark of the revolutions around the Arab world and never looks back. On this anniversary we demand an international liberation movement that eventually leads to just that, liberation for us Palestinians from 63 years of brutal military occupation and ethnic cleansing that pours shame on any organisation … Continue reading


Updated on December 28, 2011
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Your help needed: Donating olive trees this holiday season

Posted on: December 19, 2011
International volunteers assisted in planting the olive trees

19 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

As we creep up to Christmas and are seeing more and more trees appear in houses and high street windows, while we debate when to put up our own, if at all this year, I ask you all to give consideration to a much more special tree (in my opinion): the Palestinian olive trees.

This year has been a rough one for farmers in Palestine. In one village alone, Burin (Nablus) over 4000 olive trees have … Continue reading


Updated on December 19, 2011
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Mourning Mustafa Tamimi as Israeli soldiers escalate violence

Posted on: December 11, 2011
The mourning of Mustafa Tamimi - Click here for more images

by Alistair George
11 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
Over two thousand people attended the funeral of Mustafa Tamimi in Nabi Saleh today.  Tamimi was killed during a protest in Nabi Saleh on Friday after he was struck in the face by a tear gas canister fired at close range by the Israeli military.  He was 28 years old.


At least six people were arrested and several people were injured as the Israeli military reacted violently to protests … Continue reading


Updated on December 11, 2011
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No miracle yesterday in Nabi Saleh: Mustafa Tamimi murdered

Posted on: December 11, 2011
The author (left) with Ola Tamimi (center) after Mustafa Tamimi was shot at close range by the Israeli military in Nabi Saleh village (Photo: Anne Paq / ActiveStills )

by Linah Alsaafin

10 December 2011 | The Electronic Intifada

“Ambulance! Ambulance!”

So far, there were three people who had suffocated from the tear gas, and three people injured by rubber bullets. I saw gas, and so assumed that it was another case of suffocation. But the cries got louder, urgent, desperate — quite unlike the previous calls. Along with those around me, we began running to where the injured person lay, 50 meters away.

Screams. “Mustafa! Mustafa!”

I ran faster. I stopped. The youth I was so used to, the same ones who were … Continue reading


Updated on December 11, 2011
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Still casting lead: Israeli air force attack kills 2, injures 12 in single family

Posted on: December 9, 2011
Midhad El Zalaan in his home after Israel’s bombing (Photo: Radhika Sainath, Notes from Behind the Blockade) - Click here for more images

by Radhika Sainath

9 December 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade

Update: Midgdad’s 12-year-old cousin died yesterday.

“This is the occupation,” a neighbor mumbled as we stepped into what remained of twenty-year-old Migdad El Zalaan’s cement-block home in the north of Gaza City this afternoon.  The Israeli Air Force dropped the first of three bombs near Zalaan’s home at approximately 2 a.m. this morning killing his uncle, wounding El Zalaan and the rest of his twelve family members, and destroying his home.

In one corner of the living room a baby doll … Continue reading


Updated on December 11, 2011
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Tristan Anderson civil suit delayed as new evidence emerges

Posted on: December 4, 2011
Tristan Anderson civil suit delayed as new evidence emerges

by Charlotte Silver

3 Demember 2011 | The Electronic Intifada 


“If he had been a Palestinian, he would have gone to the Ramallah hospital and died,” Gabby Silverman said firmly.

Silverman was close enough to Tristan Anderson that she didn’t even have to shout for him to hear her when he was shot in the head by the Israeli border police.

Anderson was 37 years old when he was shot in the right corner of his forehead by a high velocity tear gas canister … Continue reading


Updated on December 4, 2011
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Al Baqa’a: The struggle of a family in the shadow of illegal annexation

Posted on: November 18, 2011
Atta and Rodni Jaber at their house in Al-Baqa'a, near Hebron

by Alistair George

17 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

“The Israelis hope that that the young people leave, the old people die, and then they can confiscate the land and the houses” says Sami, an activist working in Al Baqa’a, a windswept valley situated a few kilometers east of Hebron.

The Jaber family’s experiences of living in Al Baqa’a are similar to many other Palestinians in the area, in that their ordinary family faces extraordinary pressure on a daily basis from the Israeli military and nearby settlers.

Rodni Jaber is the … Continue reading


Updated on November 18, 2011
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Proceedings in US national’s civil suit over West Bank injury to begin

Posted on: November 13, 2011

13 November 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

UPDATE: The opening court date has been postponed from 17 November to 24 November 2011.

Tristan Anderson, a US National, suffered a life-threatening injury after being shot in the head with a high velocity tear-gas projectile during an anti-Wall demonstration on March 13th, 2009.

On 13 March 2009, Israeli Border Police officers shot US activist from California, Tristan Anderson, in the head with a high velocity tear-gas projectile during a demonstration in the West Bank Village of Ni’ilin. He was shot from a distance of about 40 meters away, at a time when no clashes or protesters were in his immediate vicinity. As a result of the shooting, Anderson suffered serious brain damage and the loss of his eye, as well as being paralyzed on half of his … Continue reading


Updated on December 4, 2011
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Israeli military profiling and assaulting international observers in Hebron

Posted on: November 8, 2011
Harassment of international observers at checkpoint - Click here for more information

5 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
For over a week now, ISM activists have been continually harassed, and on one occasion assaulted, by Israeli soldiers who have frequently demanded that internationals to hand over possessions of their passports. This ongoing situation has occurred within the ‘H2’ zone in the city of Hebron, which is notorious for its intense and illegal Israeli military presence due to a small number of Israeli citizens who have illegally invaded and occupied a historically significant part of the city.

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Updated on November 8, 2011
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In Photos: Palestinians gather support for #FreedomWaves and ending blockade of Gaza

Posted on: November 5, 2011
Palestinians gather support for Freedom Waves- Click here for more images

by Alistair George and Ben Lorber

Canadian and Irish ships sailing with Freedom Waves to Gaza were illegally boarded by the Israeli military in international waters yesterday afternoon.

The Israeli military stated that “Upon arrival of the vessels at the Ashdod port, the activists will be transferred to the custody of the Israel Police and immigration authorities in the Ministry of Interior”.

At present, it has been confirmed that two of the passengers have been released by the Israeli authorities without charge.  The fate of the remaining passengers is unknown.

 

 

Huwaida Arraf, spokesperson from … Continue reading


Updated on November 5, 2011
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