2 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At 3am Qalandia refugee camp was invaded by the Israeli army. Approximately 300 soldiers raided the camp, shooting live ammunition directly at people, killing two Palestinians. The two young men, Mutasin ...
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No signs of ceasing resistance in Ni’lin
6 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday, 5 August, the weekly demonstration against the illegal settlement near the Palestinian village of Ni’lin was held, despite the majority of its participants fasting for Ramadan. Although smaller than ...
Read More »Ramadan in the Buffer Zone
2 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The buffer zone is a place of death. 300 meters of destroyed land, land that used to be alive, that used to be filled with orchards, houses, and fields, now, all dead. To enter ...
Read More »Activists pray in Gaza’s buffer zone
2 August 2011 | Ma’an News Agency GAZA CITY — Popular resistance activists held noon prayers on Tuesday in the “buffer zone” in northern Gaza. International solidarity activists joined dozens of Palestinians to pray on lands recently bulldozed by Israel near ...
Read More »Music guides peaceful resistance in Kufr Qaddoum
1 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday July 29, 2011 the Popular Committee of Kufr Qaddoum included musical guests from the Netherlands, Fanfare, to play for Kufr Qaddoum’s weekly demonstration against a roadblock that closes off the main ...
Read More »Israeli soldiers violently suppress demo; sweep through houses to carry out arbitrary arrests in Nabi Saleh
29 July 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Military checkpoints were set up early in the morning on all roads leading in and out of Nabi Saleh this Friday, as the Israeli army does every Friday in its attempt to ...
Read More »Palestinians prepare for massive uprising
29 July 2011 | Inter Press Service, Mel Frykberg BEIT UMMAR, Occupied West Bank – Leading members of the Palestinian Popular Committees in the West Bank plan massive civil unrest and disobedience against the Israeli occupation authorities come September when the Palestinians ...
Read More »For human rights advocates, boycotting Israel is a no-brainer
29 July 2011 | The Daily Star, Nadia Hijab Making the Palestinian case has never been a problem. It is a powerful story grounded in universal principles of human rights and in international law. The question has always been how ...
Read More »Military resorts to violence in Al Walajah peaceful demonstration
27 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A peaceful protest against the construction of the apartheid wall in the village of Al Walajah was brought to a violent end by the Israeli army this morning with five arrests. ...
Read More »Nabi Saleh endures despite military presence
26 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At 10 a.m. we arrived at Nabi Saleh to interview the neighbors about what had happened the night before. We found out on the internet that something was going on, thanks ...
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