by Sam 28 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Last Friday, April 27, around 100 Palestinians and their supporters gathered in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh to protest the nearby illegal Israeli settlement and the unjust ...
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Wheat farmers under fire in Gaza: We must continue to work our land
by Nathan Stuckey 23 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Today we went farming with the family of Ahmed Saadat. We arrived in Khuzaa at about 7 AM and met Ahmed. He told us that the Israeli’s had already ...
Read More »It’s time to harvest the crop: Accompanying farmers in Gaza under Israeli fire
by Rosa Schiano Translation by Claudia Saba 23 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva Israeli soldiers have already started shooting onto the land along the border of the Gaza Strip. Two injured just in the first two days of ...
Read More »The right to water: Water cistern demolitions in Hebron area
by Joseph 23 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Monday April 23, 2012, the Israeli occupation forces destroyed four water cisterns outside of the city of al-Khalil (Hebron). Two of the destroyed cisterns were located in the ...
Read More »The Battle of Empty Stomachs: Khader Adnan highlights the consolation of solidarity
by Sylvia 24 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 17th of April, Palestinian political prisoners launched a mass hunger strike against the Israeli Prison Service’s (IPS) dismissal of the Fourth Geneva Convention and basic international law. ...
Read More »Impunity Under the Law: Settler attack in Jabari neighborhood
by Paige 22 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Marwan Borqan always locks the main door to his house at night. Late at night, soldiers will often knock at his door, ‘checking,’ they say, although Marwan has never ...
Read More »Israel opens fire on protesters in Ni’lin: One youth injured by rubber-coated bullet
by Sunny 22 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The weekly demonstration in Ni’lin on Friday April 20th was relatively quiet compared to previous weeks. Nevertheless, it showed again the disproportionate measures taken by Israeli occupation forces against ...
Read More »Burin Youth Center targeted once again: 10 youth arrested in 200 soldier raid
by Lydia 21 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In a quick and clean opperation, the Israeli Occupation Military managed to arrest 10 young men in two hours, forever altering the next few months or even the next ...
Read More »Nabi Saleh: 16 year old shot with tear gas canister
by Rana Hamadeh 19 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A nonviolent demonstration in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh last Friday, April 13th was met with Israeli army aggression, resulting in at least six injuries, including a ...
Read More »The siege in the sea: Accompanying Gaza’s fishermen under attack by the Israeli Navy
by Rosa Schiano 19 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva To accompany the fishermen of Gaza on their boats, as human shields to protect them, it provides not only an account of human rights violations by Israel, but also ...
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