2 November 2011 | Freedom Waves FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Palestinian youth join boats set to challenge Israel’s siege of Gaza Irish and Canadian boats in international waters on their way to challenge illegal siege policy Palestinian activists call for end ...
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#FreedomWaves launches to bring Gaza humanitarian aid
by Ben Lorber 2 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Wednesday, November 2, two international ships left the Turkish harbor to carry humanitarian aid through the Israeli blockade of Gaza. The event, called ‘Freedom Waves for Gaza’, ...
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 »Egyptian Ambassador promises to deliver petition to open Rafah Border
2 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On November first, activists from popular committees and activist youth movements through out the West Bank met with Egyptian ambassador , his Excellency Yasser Othman, in Ramallah to express their congratulations ...
Read More »CPT-Palestine closes At-Tuwani project
November 2, 2011 | Christian Peacemaker Team – Palestine In 2004, the village of At-Tuwani and its Israeli partner, Ta’ayush, approached CPT’s Hebron team and the Italian peace group, Operation Dove, asking if they could provide accompaniment for the children ...
Read More »Al Jazeera: Resistance is fertile: Palestine’s eco-war
James Brownsell | Al Jazeera English After uprooting thousands of olive trees, Israel’s latest plantation may pose a fire risk to its own citizens. They come from across the planet and meet in the shadow of Israel’s 12m concrete wall. They ...
Read More »Israel drops missile on North Gaza neighborhood, no one cares
Radhika Sainath | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Israeli Air Force fired a missile into a Beit Hanoun residential neighborhood in north Gaza early Sunday morning. The missile landed in a grove surrounded by homes, creating a crater the size of ...
Read More »Nil’in: The solitary confinement of olive trees
by Aida Gerard 31 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The selective Israeli permission system prevents many families from Nil’in from reaching their land behind the wall to pick their own olives as the olive harvest season nears ...
Read More »Israel: Charging house demolition victims to pay costs of demolition equipment
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 ...
Read More »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 ...
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