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Beit Hanoun: Celebrating the land and culture of Palestine

Posted on: March 29, 2012
Celebrating the land and life in Beit Hanoun - Click here for more photos

by Nathan Stuckey
29 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza


Today, Beit Hanoun celebrated Land Day.  It is true that Land Day isn’t really until tomorrow, but tomorrow is the Global March to Jerusalem, tomorrow, God willing, Land Day can be celebrated on the land from which the refugees were expelled 64 years ago.  Today, Land Day was celebrated on the land that Palestinians have managed to hold onto in Palestine.  Land Day commemorates the protests against the expropriation of Palestinian land which rocked Palestine in 1976.  … Continue reading


Updated on March 31, 2012
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Al Khalil: School children reflect on changes in Israeli military following presence of ISM volunteers

Posted on: March 25, 2012
Al Khalil: School children reflect on changes in Israeli military following presence of ISM volunteers

by Edna

25 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The safe, comfortable, winsome childhood I had growing up in suburban America is a completely theoretical concept for the Palestinian children in the West Bank.

I’ve realized this while volunteering as a human rights observer in Hebron. One activity that entails is sitting and watching kids, ages six to thirteen, walk to the all-male Mutanabi school. It sounds like a silly endeavor; but in reality, it’s a deplorable necessity.

This was illustrated when, on a tour introducing the volunteers to the students, … Continue reading


Updated on March 25, 2012
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Two Stray Bullets in Gaza

Posted on: March 24, 2012
Two Stray Bullets in Gaza

by Johnny Bravo
24 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
On Sunday it was reported that a young boy had been shot on farmland near the Rafah crossing. The details were unclear. Several colleagues and I traveled to Rafah to find out what happened. After making several inquiries, we entered a Bedouin area several hundred meters north of Gaza’s border with Egypt and three kilometers from the Karm Abu Salem area of the Israeli border on the East. We followed a young … Continue reading


Updated on March 24, 2012
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Rachel Corrie & Hana Shalabi: Flowers among thistles of Israeli occupation

Posted on: March 21, 2012
Rachel Corrie & Hana Shalabi: Flowers among thistles of Israeli occupation

by Nathan Stuckey

21 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Rachel Corrie was murdered nine years ago by an Israeli bulldozer.  Hana Shalabi has spent the last 34 days on hunger strike an Israeli prison, yet she is accused of no crime.  This was not the first time Hana has been held in Israeli prisons while being accused of no crime. She was only recently released as part of a prisoner exchange after being held without charges for 25 months. Hana has said that “freedom is … Continue reading


Updated on March 21, 2012
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They will never beg

Posted on: March 19, 2012

by Johnny Bravo

19 March 2012  | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

I have read several accounts over the last few days of how life in Southern Israel has become unbearable for the people living there. In retaliation for the latest provocation by Israel over 200 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. 11 people were injured, one seriously. Most were suffering from “shock”. Two were injured when they tripped on the way to secure areas.

Minister of Strategic Affair  and deputy premier Moshe Yaalon on Thursday said, “Anyone threatening us is risking his life. We will retaliate until they beg us to stop.”

Foreign … Continue reading


Updated on March 19, 2012
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Jordan Valley: Three families invaded by one hundred Israeli soldiers in Al Jiftlik

Posted on: March 17, 2012

by Kim

 17 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

On March 15th  at 16:00 we got a call about three house demolitions in the village of Al Jiftlik, near the Jordan Valley. We threw ourselves into the first public transportation vehicle to take us to the village. It was dusk when we came to the outskirts of the village where we met our contact person.

He quickly fixed up a car, and we got straight to the first house which was adjacent to the highway. Here we found two families standing before the ruins of their homes. They are seven people in … Continue reading


Updated on March 17, 2012
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The education of common grounds: From al Nakba to Black History Month

Posted on: March 17, 2012
Tagging up segregation | Click here for more photos

by Lina

18 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank 

Last month we celebrated the 36th annual African American History Month. The origins of this month come from the need to study the major contributions that Black people brought to America.

“The fact is that the so-called history teaching in our schools and colleges is downright propaganda, an effort to praise one race and to decry the other to justify social repression and exploitation”. Sadly, this quote from 1927 is still relevant today.

Carter G. Woodson strived for an accurate representation of Black people in history studies, and Palestinians are fighting for the … Continue reading


Updated on March 18, 2012
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Beit Dajan gears up for continued resistance

Posted on: March 15, 2012

by Robin

15 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

On the 14th of March 2012 two internationals from ISM went to Beit Dajan to talk about the recent upstart of demonstrations in the village.

We met with Naser Abu Jaish who is the administrative manager in the municipality. Beit Dajan is a village with about 4000 inhabitants and is situated about 10 km east of Nablus. Since the beginning of the second Intifada, there has been a roadblock put up on the main road by the Israeli military.

This has made transportation difficult for the villagers as they were forced to take … Continue reading


Updated on March 17, 2012
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The mourning tent of a martyr

Posted on: March 15, 2012
Photo courtesy of Rosa Schiano, 2012

by Nathan Stuckey
14 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip


Nayif Qarmout was murdered yesterday; he was also buried yesterday, in a small cemetery in the heart of Jabalia, the refugee camp where he lived.  He was only 14 years old.  He was murdered by an Israeli missile while playing football with his friends.  He was a handsome young man, the photo on his martyr posters make that obvious. It was something that I never would have guessed … Continue reading


Updated on March 16, 2012
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Beit Furik, Nablus: Family unable to attend funeral for son killed in recent Gaza air strikes

Posted on: March 14, 2012
Who is in this picture

by Jonas Weber

13 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

“We called him Nassr, but I think his real name was Mahmoud,” says Ahmed while we were on the bus from the Beit Furik municipality building. Outside the bus window, the walls of the little town just outside of Nablus are plastered with freshly printed martyr posters. The picture shows a middle aged man photoshopped between the Dome of the Rock and the Palestinian flag.

It has just been a few days since Mahmoud Hanini was killed by an Israeli rocket … Continue reading


Updated on March 14, 2012
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