18 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
On 18th October 2011 teachers from Qordoba school stood in protest at checkpoint 56 for a sixth day of resistance against the increased ‘security’ measures imposed upon them by the Israeli occupying forces. In the past week this peaceful protest has been met with an alarmingly intolerant – and at times violent – response from the Israeli soldiers. On the first day, nine young children were hospitalized.
By the third day of demonstration the international press had taken up the story.
On the fourth day soldiers sought to quash the mounting … Continue reading
