24 July 2011 | The Guardian, Harriet Sherwood Hani al-Asi, a fisherman since the age of 11 and a father with 12 mouths to feed, had just begun throwing his lines into the Mediterranean when an Israeli gunboat sped towards ...
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Bedouin community endures demolitions
24 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On July 24th at around 1PM, a bulldozer accompanied by 10 military jeeps arrived in the Bedouin community of Mughayyar ad-Deir, about 12 km north east of Jerusalem, near the Ma’ale Michmas ...
Read More »Ni’lin demonstrator hit with shrapnel during weekly protest
23 July 2011 | Ni’lin Village Today in Ni’lin, one demonstrator was hit with shrapnel and dozens suffered from tear gas inhalation during the suppression by the Israeli occupation forces of the anti-wall weekly protest. The march organized by The ...
Read More »IDF shoots live ammunition at ISM activists at sea
24 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Saturday the ISM crew for CPS Gaza rode out on the trawler that rescued us during the second attack on the Oliva on Thursday, July 14th. As I mentioned before, the ...
Read More »Escalation of attacks by the Israeli navy on the CPS Gaza boat
23 July 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza Footage of the second water-cannon attack by the Israeli navy against the Civil Peace Service Gaza boat “Oliva” on Thursday, July 14, 2011. The camera used was lost in the sea when ...
Read More »Israeli soldiers carry out violent arrests at gunpoint in An Nabi Saleh
22 July 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Five Palestinians were arrested in Nabi Saleh today, as soldiers stormed village houses without warrants. Israeli soldiers and Border Police officers implemented extremely violent measures in the dispersal of the weekly demonstration ...
Read More »Arrested and beaten yet Palestinians remain in prison
20 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Today, Friday 15 of July, the Israeli army violently repressed the weekly non-violent demonstration of the Palestinian city of Nabi Saleh. During the repeated attacks on the peaceful demonstrators four activists were ...
Read More »Human rights workers continues to face Israeli aggression in Gazan waters
20 July 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza The Israeli navy attacked Civil Peace Service Gaza volunteers along with international press and Palestinian fishermen today. One of the Israeli ships targeted the boats with high pressure water cannons. Meanwhile, a ...
Read More »Beit Hanoun, 63 years and 300 meters later
19 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, happened sixty three years ago. The theft of Palestinian land continues even today. Every Tuesday, for the last three years, the people of Beit Hanoun ...
Read More »Gaza fishermen defy naval blockade
20 July 2011 | Al Jazeera Emboldened by the ‘Freedom Flotilla’s’ attempt to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, some Gazan fishermen have been trying to sail beyond the three nautical mile limit imposed by Israel. The Oslo Accords ...
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