19th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Dozens of Palestinian children marched in Gaza Friday evening before holding a candlelight vigil outside the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). The event was the first in a ...
Read More »International Women’s Peace Service meet with prisoner released in Shalit deal
26 December 2011 | International Women’s Peace Service The 18th of December was a day of reunion and celebration for many in Palestine. Following a tense wait, several delays and tear-gas attacks by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on their waiting ...
Read More »“Like the Wild West:” Ex-prisoner lives with bounty on his head
by Alistair George 13 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement West Bank “I see my situation as a cowboy film, like the wild west” says Hani Jaber, showing ISM a poster, written in Arabic saying: ‘Wanted: if anyone has any ...
Read More »In Exile: Families relate stories of prisoner exiles
by Alistair George 10 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Although Palestinian prisoners endure harsh conditions in Israeli prisons, including and physical and psychological torture, their families are also severely punished through the policies of the Israeli authorities. ...
Read More »An interview with Amer Ahmad Al-Qwasmah, former prisoner
by Alistair George 23 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Amer Ahmad Al-Qwasmah, 45, was released on 18 October 2011 as part of the prisoner exchange deal that saw 477 Palestinian prisoners (with 550 to be released at ...
Read More »Loay Auda: From a closed cell to the jail of exile
by Silvia Todeschini 26 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Loay Auda, in Israeli prisons since 2002, was released in the last prisoner swap exchange. Native of Jerusalem, he was of the many deported to Gaza. In an interview ...
Read More »Raw conversations with released Palestinian prisoners
by Alistair George 2 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Below is an abridged transcript of talks given by Palestinian former-prisoners, (released as part of the Hamas-Shalit deal) at PASSIA (Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International ...
Read More »