20 January 2011 / International Solidarity Movement, Vera Macht It had been only eight days since the last innocent was killed. People die here one after another, killed one by one, without consequences, without justice, without an outcry in the ...
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A melancholy Martin Luther King Day in Bil’in
17 January 2010 | The Huffington Post, Majida Abu Rahmah My family endured another heartbreaking setback last Tuesday in the case of my husband, Abdallah Abu Rahmah. Although Abdallah’s prison sentence ended November 18th, the Israeli Military Court of Appeals ...
Read More »Life and death in the buffer zone
16 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Vera Macht Death comes quickly at a place like this. On sunny winter days, when the smell of the night’s rain is still in the air, as if it would have brought some ...
Read More »Protests continue in An Nabi Saleh
14 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Friday, the weekly demonstration was again held in the village of An Nabi Saleh. The situation in the village is getting worse: from 6 o´clock in the morning soldiers closed the newly ...
Read More »Collective punishment continues as army raids Nabi Saleh
13 January 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee From the hours of 12:00 until 03:00 last night, soldiers raided eighteen houses in the village of Nabi Saleh. Soldiers, in full combat equipment, raided the houses in order to photograph people, ...
Read More »Thirteen homes and three school buildings destroyed by Israeli forces
12 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement More than 13 homes and three school buildings were bulldozed this morning by occupation forces in the small Bedouin village of Dkaika near Yatta south of Hebron. One eye witness – an English ...
Read More »Judge accepts military prosecution’s appeal to harshen Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s sentence
11 January 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The court has accepted the military prosecution’s appeal to harshen Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s sentence to a total of 16 months. Abu Rahmah was supposed to be released on November 18th 2010, but ...
Read More »Military court to appeal verdict for Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s case on Tuesday
10 January 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The court will deliver a decision on the military prosecution’s appeal to harshen Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s sentence. Abu Rahmah was supposed to be released on November 18th 2010, but has been kept ...
Read More »Bil’in: A village in mourning
9 January 2011 | Al Jazeera, Renee Lewis One West Bank family has paid the highest price for their village’s peaceful pursuit of justice. People say that time heals, but the Abu Rahmah family feels as though it is living ...
Read More »“Soldiers, settlers, and the police are the occupation”: Hani Abu Haikal’s life inside the Tel Rumeida settlement
9 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramona Hani Abu Haikal and his family live in Hebron’s H2, which is under Israeli control. They are part of the 30,000 Palestinians that live among 500 settlers in this part of the ...
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