by Samira | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The people in the Bedouin community, Mihtawish, in Khan el Ahmar area outside Jerusalem today faced a house demolition. Three family houses were demolished, which hosted in total 39 people. 30 of ...
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Literal buzzkills: What it feels like underneath an Israeli drone
Sami Kishawi 30 October 2011 | Sixteen Minutes to Palestine Unmanned Israeli drones have been circling over the Gaza Strip for more than a day now. Few people outside of Gaza realize just how psychologically torturing this can be. Not only ...
Read More »Huwaida Arraf: ‘They have lies to spin; we have truths to tell’
Yousef M. Aljamal 30 October 2011 | Mondoweiss Yousef M. Aljamal of Gaza’s Center for Political Development Studies interviews with Huwaida Arraf, cofounder of the International Solidarity Movement: Aljamal: First, could you please give us a brief introduction about ISM? Arraf: The International ...
Read More »Israeli prison industrial complex in motion
by Lisa 30 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement West Bank During a settler tour around the old city in Hebron on Saturday, where dozens of Israelis were guided around in a sort of parade, a Palestinian man named Yousef ...
Read More »Beit Ummar: Settlers throw stones from behind military tear gas
by Anders and Aurelie 30 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, 2011 What started as a peaceful demonstration soon erupted into violence when soldiers and settlers from Karmei Tzur settlement attacked a demonstration in Beit Ummar today. The demonstration of around ...
Read More »Refusing to die in silence: Palestinians resist settler violence during the olive harvest
Ben Lorber 29 October 2011 | Mondoweiss As this year’s olive harvest sends Palestinian families across all of historic Palestine out to their olive trees, a new nonviolent resistance group called Refusing to Die In Silence is patrolling the West ...
Read More »Israeli soldiers “are the law:” The detainment of children
by Emma and Becka 29 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Thursday October 29, in Huwarra, around 3:00PM, soldiers detained busses and services for no apparent reasons. The busses that were stopped were filled with children going ...
Read More »The Israeli Army shot at me and 3 Palestinian kids in Gaza today
Radhika S. 28 October 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade After a lovely day of drinking excessive amounts of tea with a few families in South Gaza (Faraheen and Khuza’a, to be exact), an Italian colleague, Silvia, who used ...
Read More »Israeli army shoots at children and two ISM activists
Silvia Todeschini 28 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Witnesses in Gaza today reported an escalation of Israeli aggression in the Khuza’a – Abasan, governate of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. The Israeli army also shot at two ISM activists ...
Read More »“With children visible” Israeli military assaults Kufr Qaddoum
by Rana H. 28 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Soldiers fired teargas directly into crowd at peaceful protesters in Kufr Qaddoum. Internationals and Palestinians, including children, were gathered behind barbed wire that runs across their main road, ...
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