Year: 2011

  • Meanwhile in Gaza

    Meanwhile in Gaza

    by Radhika S. 15 November 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade I awoke today with the news that the NYPD was clearing out Occupy Wall Street and that Israeli tanks were shelling “northern Gaza.”  In the West Bank, Palestinian Freedom Riders, inspired by the US freedom riders of the 1960s, were getting ready to board segregated…

  • Al Qasab demolished as hundreds of Israeli soldiers watch

    Al Qasab demolished as hundreds of Israeli soldiers watch

    by Guillaume and William 15 November 2011  | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank This morning, on Tuesday 15th  November, national day of Palestine, three houses in Al Qasab near Jericho were destroyed by the Israeli military.  During the early morning, between two and three hundred Israeli soldiers entered Al Qasab with bulldozers and destroyed the houses.…

  • Jerusalem: Explosions, arrests and violence as Israel clears way for settlement activity

    Jerusalem: Explosions, arrests and violence as Israel clears way for settlement activity

    by Alistair George 13 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Three Palestinians were arrested and others were detained, beaten and pepper sprayed by the Israeli military in Al-Walajeh yesterday, as villagers attempted to prevent the detonation of explosives used to widen the route for the separation wall on the village’s land. Previously, large…