Author: ISM Media Group

  • Interview: Boycotting Israel at the Arab American University in Jenin

    Aaron Lakoff is an independent journalist from Montreal, Canada. He is currently volunteering with the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, in Beit Sahour, Palestine. He previous reports can be found on his blog Ashraf is from Tulkarem, Palestine. He graduated from the Arab American University in Jenin (www.aauj.edu) in the summer of 2007 with…

  • Checkpoint 17, near Nablus, is opened, but still with restrictions

    On Monday 28th April, the Israeli checkpoint Assira ‘Ash Shamaliya, known as checkpoint 17, was opened for the first time in four years. The checkpoint, which separates the city of Nablus from the northern village of Asira ‘ash Shamaliya and other neighbouring villages, was the first of the promised fifty checkpoints to be removed around…

  • Haaretz: Settlers to move into East Jerusalem police HQ

    To see original article published in Haaretz, 28th April 2008, click here Based on an agreement signed with former police commissioner Moshe Karadi, right-wing settlers will take up residence in a group of buildings in Jerusalem’s predominantly Arab neighborhood Ras al-Amud in the next few days. The building had hitherto served as the Samaria and…

  • Demonstration in Nablus to commemorate International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners

    On Saturday 26th April, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Committee in Nablus organised a demonstration to commemorate the 4th International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. Sponsored by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, the Ministry of Prisoners, Palestinian Women’s Union and Palestinian political factions, the demonstration started in the centre of Nablus, before marching through the city to…

  • Operation Dove: Israeli settlers impede Palestinian shepherds, flocks and damage water cistern

    At 10.20am on the morning of Saturday 26 April, four Israeli national-religious settlers from Ma’on settlement threw stones at three Palestinian shepherds who were grazing flocks on their land near the village of Tuba, in the South Hebron Hills The threatening presence of the settlers caused the shepherds and flocks to immediately leave the area.…