12 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Following the first barrage of tear gas during November 11th’s peaceful demonstration in Kufr Qaddoum , some Israeli soldiers began to make their way into the village. The soldiers picked up ...
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Israeli navy kidnaps two Palestinian children and uncle fishing in Gazan waters
by Radhika S. 12 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Seventeen-year-old Abdul Qader Baker still has no idea why the Israeli navy surrounded his small fishing boat at 4 a.m. Thursday morning, ordered him, his 17-year-old cousin Mohamed Baker, ...
Read More »Palestinian Scouts welcome exiled prisoner to Gaza
by Joe Catron 12 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Palestinian Scouts and their families rallied in the Gaza YMCA Friday afternoon to honor former political prisoner Christian Al-Bandak and welcome him to Gaza. Al-Bandak, who donned a Scout ...
Read More »Illegal road closure in Kufr Qaddoum leads to arrests
by Thom Andrews 11 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Today marked the 5th month of the village of Kufr Qaddoum’s campaign of non-violence against the Israeli military’s decision to illegally close their main road to Nablus. What began ...
Read More »Solidarity with the Palestinian Freedom Riders
10 November 2011 | Jewish Voice for Peace On November 15th, Palestinian activists will attempt to board segregated Israeli settler public transport headed to occupied East Jerusalem in an act of civil disobedience inspired by the Freedom Riders of the ...
Read More »In Photos: Burin withstands settler violence
by Amal 9 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In the past three years Burin has faced increased settler violence. This small village of approximately 3,000 people deal with a constant threat of settler attacks or Israeli army ...
Read More »Global week of action against Israel’s wall in the West Bank
by Nora Barrows-Friedman 9 November 2011 | The Electronic Intifada Since the beginning stages of Israel’s implementation and continued construction of its illegal wall in the occupied West Bank nearly ten years ago — and compounded with the International Court ...
Read More »Father of 5 run over and killed by settler
by Thom Andrews 9 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank This afternoon, 45 year old Abdullah Mutaled Al-Mashni, father of 5, was run over and killed by an illegal settler. Whilst returning from collecting his olives, Abdullah was ...
Read More »Prisoner release: Palestinian narratives
Fadi Kawasmi 9 November 2011 | PASSIA Below is an abridged transcript of a talk given at PASSIA (Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs ) Round table on ‘Prisoner Release – Palestinian Narratives’ on 31 October 2011 ...
Read More »Remembrance in Beit Hanoun
by Nathan Stuckey 9 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza It is Tuesday, the third day of Eid, the Eid of the Sacrifice. We, the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative and the International Solidarity Movement, have gathered near the bombed ...
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