Year: 2012
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Nablus City: Family left pleading in the night for their sons’ freedom
by Lydia 3 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Essam Amer Ghassal,16 Khaled Beal Harabi, 22, Yousef Beal Harabi, 23: Three more names to be added to the political prisoner list, two more mothers to carry framed pictures of their children to prisoner awareness demonstrations. At 2 AM, on April 2nd the Israeli…
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Israeli soldiers arrest 20 in a pre-dawn raid on Kufr Qaddoum
by Abir Kopty 5 April 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee During the raid, soldiers pillaged jewelry and caused extensive damage to houses. Residents are certain that arrests were made to quash regular protests in the village Massive numbers of Israeli soldiers staged an extensive pre-dawn raid on the West Bank village of Kufr Qaddoum…
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Neither threats nor murders will stop our demonstrations
by Nathan Stuckey 4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Over the weekend Israeli planes dropped flyers over Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia warning that anyone who approached within three hundred meters of the border would be shot. It is not as though the people don’t know of this policy. As the following conversation…
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Video: Israeli military shooting directly at press in Kufr Qaddoum
by Axel 4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday the 30th of March the weekly demonstration was held in the village Kufr Qaddoum outside of Nablus. This day was however the same day as the Global March to Jerusalem, meaning less media attention than normal, and also less internationals present as…
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They shoot the youth don’t they?
by Johnny Bravo 4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On March 30, 1976, the Palestinian people declared a general strike and demonstrated against the Israeli confiscation of thousands of acres of land in the Galilee. The Israeli’s responded with violence, killing six unarmed Palestinian demonstrators and injuring hundreds. Every year Land Day is…
