By Hakim Maghribi 21 July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A short distance from Nablus one finds the community of Askar camp. What appears as a suburb or cut-off of the city, is actually a refugee camp. Established ...
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Apartheid Safari
By Markus Fitzgerald 21 July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Saturday evening, around 6pm, a group of illegal Israeli settlers move through the Old City of Palestinian Al Khalil (Hebron). They are both surrounded and fortified by Israeli ...
Read More »Israel refuses to investigate death of slain Palestinian protester from Bil’in
18 July 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the West Bank village of Bil’in village, died of cardiac arrest caused by inhalation of excessive amounts of tear gas. The Israeli High Court laid the onus of ...
Read More »Akram Rikhawi and the Saga of Palestinian Hunger Strikes
By Richard Falk 9 July 2012 | Richard Falk WordPress The persistence of Palestinian hunger strikes shocks me for two reasons: that these extreme expressions of moral freedom alert all who choose to expose their consciousness to such realities of ...
Read More »BDS at 7! – Celebrating, reflecting and further mainstreaming
9 July 2012 | Palestinian BDS National Committee, Occupied Palestine Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and ...
Read More »Nabi Saleh: 11 arrested in weekly demonstration
By Hakim M. 16 July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh faced brutal repression from the Israeli military on Friday, July 13. Beginning at 1:30 p.m., Palestinian and solidarity activists walked down the ...
Read More »Commemoration in Kufr Qaddoum: Demonstration turns 1 year
By Hakim M. 16 July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On 12 July, the West Bank village of Kufr Qaddoum celebrated the one year anniversary of their weekly, popular demonstration. The regular protests are targeting the closure of ...
Read More »Kufr Qaddoum: Israel fires at peaceful protest, man injured in head
By Amina Simonsson 14 July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday, July 13, several protesters were injured when the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) fired tear-gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at the weekly peaceful demonstration in the Palestinian ...
Read More »Yanoun: Settlers and soldiers attack village, injuring five
By Marshall Pinkerton 8th July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Saturday 7 July, 2012, the village of Yanoun, located 12km southeast of Nablus, was attacked by illegal settlers from the illegal Itamar settlement. Five Palestinians were injured ...
Read More »Palestinian demonstrator arrested at weekly Kufr Qaddum protest
By Marshall Pinkerton 7th July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) violently suppressed the weekly demonstration at Kafr Qaddum on Friday the 6th of July, injuring one man, and arresting another. Majid Joomaa, ...
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