20 August 2012 | Operation Dove, At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills In the afternoon of August 16th some Palestinians discovered that an olive grove situated in Humra valley had been recently destroyed during the night, according to a Palestinian. Thirty olive ...
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Hit-and-run settler kills 15 goats
By Markus Fitzgerald 20 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Monday, August 6, Mershid (19), son of Muhamad Abdalah Dawabsheh, checked for oncoming cars and started to cross the road between Nablus and Ramallah with his herd of ...
Read More »Foreign Press Association demands investigation of incident in which soldiers beat journalists
By Emily Greenzweig 20 August 2012 | Haaretz The Foreign Press Association (FPA) is demanding an investigation of the incident in which soldiers beat journalists. The FPA contacted the Prime Minister’s Office and the Israeli army following the incident in ...
Read More »From the children of Gaza: Samouni Street
20 August 2012 | Besieged Gaza, occupied Palestine From the children of Gaza comes this adorable animation depicting the story of 4 kids of the extended Samouni family in Gaza. By animated drawings they express what happened to them and ...
Read More »An Open Letter from Gaza to EU: Do not reward apartheid!
19 August 2012 | Besieged Gaza, occupied Palestine We call on the European Union to challenge and not embrace Israel’s incessant land expropriation and racist subjugation against the Palestinian people. The European Union’s own reports document and supposedly lament Israel’s ...
Read More »Khan Al Luban: Settlers invade again
By Alex Marley 18 August | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Saturday August 11, 2012 the same events of three days earlier repeated themselves in Khan Al Luban. A group of 4 illegal Israeli settlers, from Ma’ale Levona, armed with ...
Read More »Israeli military beats and arrests journalists, suppresses Kufr Qaddoum demonstration
By Marshall Pinkerton and Alma Reventos 18 August | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday, August 17, 5 were injured and 8 arrested during the weekly protest in Kufr Qaddoum. Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas canisters, rubber-coated steel bullets, and beat ...
Read More »Call to action: Olive Harvest 2012
18 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At a time of increasing settler violence in the West Bank, the International Solidarity Movement is issuing an urgent call for volunteers to participate in the 2012 Olive Harvest Campaign at the invitation ...
Read More »In suspected Jerusalem lynch, dozens of Jewish youths attack 3 Palestinians
By Nir Hasson 17 August 2012 | Haaretz One of the Palestinians was seriously wounded and hospitalized in intensive care; eyewitness: Today I saw a lynch with my own eyes. Dozens of Jewish youths attacked three young Palestinians in Jerusalem’s ...
Read More »Settlers invade Khan Al Luban
By Alex Marley 17 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At around 10:30 p.m., a group of Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of Ma’ale Levona arrived in Khan Al Luban, a Palestinian hamlet located in the vicinity ...
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