19 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Two Palestinian children were wounded when their house, in the Ameer project of Gaza City’s Soudania neighborhood, was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike early in the morning of Friday, August 19. After ...
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Global actions target Egyptian embassies to break Israel’s closure of Gaza
26 August 2011 | International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border Fed up with the closure of Gaza that has kept more than a million and a half Palestinians locked in to the strip’s tight borders, a beacon call is ...
Read More »Elderly farmer murdered in Israeli airstrike in Buriej
26 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Ismail Nimr Ammoum worked his whole life as a farm laborer. He did not have land of his own, he worked for others, planting, watering, weeding, whatever needed done. He was a ...
Read More »Two killed in bombing of al-Salama sport club in Beit Lahia
25 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza At about 1:30 A.M. on August 25, 2011 Israeli warplanes bombed the Salama Sports Club in Beit Lahia. The building was empty at the time. The sports club, however, is in the ...
Read More »Occupation in the Jordan Valley
22 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In the last month ISM has joined up with Jordan Valley Solidarity and a slew of other international activists to make mud bricks for a new house and football field in ...
Read More »Iftar at the House of the Ezkadenia
24 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Israel’s latest round of attacks on Gaza has made it too dangerous to demonstrate in the buffer zone. The people of Beit Hanoun do not demonstrate because they want to die, they ...
Read More »Snapshots of Al-Qawasmi home, ripped apart by Israeli military
22 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Hussein Al-Qawasmi was arrested 10 days ago. Yesterday Qawasmi was escorted back to his home by Israeli soldiers, who claimed there were explosives as well as a memory stick and other ...
Read More »Pedestrian caught between H1, H2, and Israeli military
22 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement In Al Khalil, commonly referred to as Hebron, international observers received a call about a man being beaten by Israeli military between the H1 and H2 areas of Hebron. H1 is an area ...
Read More »Many injured in Hebron house demolition
22 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At 10pm Sunday August 21st the Hasan Ali Darwish Al-Qawasmi house in the Abo Ktelah district was raided and later destroyed by Israeli soldiers. Around eight armored vehicles surrounded the house ...
Read More »Night of Israeli violence: Al Aqsa Mosque barricade, house demolition, gang beating, arrests
22 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Just after midnight on Monday, August 22 the Israeli military took the opportunity to trap 1500 Palestinian youth inside al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, blow up a house in Hebron (injuring 30 ...
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