Month: November 2011

  • “Only one half of me is free, but the other half is still there, locked up behind Israeli bars”

    “Only one half of me is free, but the other half is still there, locked up behind Israeli bars”

    by Shahd Abusalama 13 November 2011  | Palestine from My Eyes In a nice restaurant overlooking Gaza’s beach, beneath a full moon with a beautiful halo surrounding it, I sat with my new friends who recently were released from Israeli prisons. Their freedom was restricted by Israel’s inhumane rules, including indefinitely deportation from the West…

  • Girl detained: Israeli military escalates pressure at Hebron checkpoints

    Girl detained: Israeli military escalates pressure at Hebron checkpoints

    by Emma Evertsson 13 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On November 12 a young teenage girl was being detained at the main checkpoint in Hebron. When internationals were notified she had been detained for more than an hour without any obvious reason. The girl was on her way home with a friend…

  • Palestinian Freedom Riders to ride settler buses to Jerusalem

    Palestinian Freedom Riders to ride settler buses to Jerusalem

    13 November 2011 | Freedom Riders Inspired by the Freedom Rides of the US Civil Rights Movement Palestinian activists will attempt to board segregated Israeli settler buses to occupied East Jerusalem Groups of Palestinian Freedom Riders will attempt to board segregated settler buses heading to Jerusalem through the occupied West Bank this Tuesday November 15,…

  • Proceedings in US national’s civil suit over West Bank injury to begin

    13 November 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee UPDATE: The opening court date has been postponed from 17 November to 24 November 2011. Tristan Anderson, a US National, suffered a life-threatening injury after being shot in the head with a high velocity tear-gas projectile during an anti-Wall demonstration on March 13th, 2009. On 13 March 2009, Israeli Border Police officers shot US activist from California, Tristan Anderson, in the head with a high velocity tear-gas projectile during a demonstration in the West Bank Village of Ni’ilin. He was shot…

  • As B’TSelem documents shooting of man, employee is arrested

    As B’TSelem documents shooting of man, employee is arrested

    by Aida Gerard 11 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A 55 year old Palestinian man was taken to hospital from Nabi Saleh due to an injury from a rubber coated steel bullet.  After two hours of demonstrating the Israeli Occupation Forces invaded Nabi Saleh and arrested one Palestinian, 36 year old Bilal Tamimi,…