5 March 2011 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center Violent confrontations erupted in Silwan yesterday, with clashes sparked in Samer Sarhan Street and spreading throughout various districts of the village. Witnesses state that in addition to firing heavy amounts of rubber ...
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Army arrests local protest leader in Nabi Saleh last night
6 March 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Naji Tamimi, member of the Nabi Saleh popular committee and one of the leading figures in the struggle against the annexation of village lands by the nearby settlement of Halamish, was arrested ...
Read More »Several people injured at the International women’s day demonstration at Qalandiya checkpoint
05 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At the 5th of March several protesters at Qalandiya checkpoint were injured. Among the injured were a 23 year old Swedish ISM activist hit by a tear gas grenade. The grenade burned her ...
Read More »Inspired by Egypt, young Palestinians lead movement to end division
Vittorio Arrigoni Translation by Daniela Loffreda. The mighty flow of blood and hope from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrein, Algeria and Lybia has also washed over young Palestinian minds in Gaza. What started as a stream has become a torrent and ...
Read More »Bombing is southern Gaza: 18-month child injured
3 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On February 26, Jamal Abo Hiatham Sharikhi (33 years) had his home destroyed by bombing from the Israeli military, and his 18-month old daughter was injured on her head by broken glass. ...
Read More »Scrap collector injured in the North
26 February 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza As his family was hungry but running out of cooking gas, Khaled Mohammed Al-Hsunmi (37) went out to collect wood. Cooking gas in Gaza is scarce and expensive (the siege does not ...
Read More »West Bank Palestinians anticipate settler’s ‘Day of Rage’
Violence of settlers against Palestinians throughout the West Bank is a known issue and is often excessive, vandalizing, injuring, and sometimes lethal. One month ago, in a span of two days — the 27th and 28th of January — two ...
Read More »Hebron witnesses increase in settler harassment following al-Shuhada street demonstration
02 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Sunday a shop in Tel Rumeida was attacked by a middle-aged settler who smashed the shop’s window with a stick. Of the two shopkeepers inside, one was disabled in a wheelchair. The other ...
Read More »Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem’s visa revoked
02 March 2011 | Arieh Cohen Sheil Dawani is considered a foreigner, having been born in Nablus, while the Anglican cathedral and offices are in East Jerusalem. Without a visa, in theory he can be arrested and deported at any ...
Read More »Village of Khirbet Tana completely demolished by Israeli military
02 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At 9 am this morning the Israeli military arrived to the village of Khirbet Tana, close to Beit Furik, south east of Nablus, with four bulldozers and army jeeps. For the sixth time ...
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