20 February 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Eight young Palestinian men were arrested by the Israeli military yesterday in the village of Deir Al Ghusun, north of Tulkarem. Three of them remain in custody, Jala Anwar, Omar Abu Safa and ...
Read More »Yearly Archives: 2011
Israeli army demolishes homes in Khirbet Tana for the fifth time
20 February 2011 | International Solidarity Movement The villagers in Khirbet Tana, near Beit Furik in the Nablus region, once again faced Israeli bulldozers destroying their homes. Only ten days after the last demolition, the Israeli army arrived in the ...
Read More »Seven arrested in An Nabi Saleh
19 February 2011 | Bethlehem Solidarity Seven people were arrested yesterday in An Nabi Saleh during the weekly demonstration against the occupation and settlements. After the Israeli army invaded the village two Palestinians, four Israelis and one international were arrested. ...
Read More »Action Alert: tell Egypt to open Rafah crossing
19 February 2011 | Gazan human rights organizations The International Solidarity Movement has received a request from Palestinians in Gaza that concerned people contact the Egyptian embassies to ask them to reopen the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza. They ...
Read More »Bil’in marks sixth anniversary of anti-Wall demonstrations
19 February 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee During the weekly demonstration five people were injured and dozens suffered from server cases of asphyxia from tear gas. Hundreds of Palestinians joined by Israeli and international solidarity actives marched under the ...
Read More »Israeli troops kill Gaza fishermen
17 February 2011 | Al Jazeera Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinian fishermen along the Gaza-Israeli border, Palestinian medics have said. Gaza’s ministry of health said on Thursday that the men were killed overnight in the north of Gaza, near ...
Read More »Settlers shoot teenager south-west of Nablus
15 February 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Settlers shot and wounded a boy of 18 whilst he was farming on his father’s land at 1400hrs today, in the village of Jaloud, south-west of Nablus. Wael Mahmoud Tobase Ayad was planting ...
Read More »Turkey Gaza flotilla probe: five shot dead at close range
13 February 2011 | Haaretz A Turkish government inquiry into Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed eight Turks and a Turkish-American says Israeli soldiers shot five victims at close range. Turkey released details of its formal inquiry into ...
Read More »Palestinian child hit by Israeli police car in Silwan
10 February 2011 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center An Israeli police car ran over a young Palestinian girl on the main street of Ain al-Luza neighbourhood in Silwan yesterday, 9 February. Witnesses reported that the police vehicle had been speeding ...
Read More »Villagers harassed by Israeli army whilst trying to farm their land
12 February 2011 | International Solidarity Movement In the village of Jaloud, south of Nablus, around thirty villagers, two internationals, and six Israeli peace activists accompanied farmers to their land to help plant one hundred olive trees. Towards the end ...
Read More »