Author: ISM Media Group

  • Demonstrations in Bil’in, Al-Khader and Shabtin villages, Mass arrests at Tel Rumeida protest

    Bil’in: For the original report from IMEMC on the 25th April, click here On Friday, the villagers of Bil’in located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah conducted their weekly non-violent protest against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village land. As the case each week, villagers from Bil’in along with Israeli and…

  • Palestinian, international and Israeli activists reclaim settler outpost

    On 24th April, around forty Palestinian, international and Israeli activists occupied a settler outpost within an abandoned military base in the Ramallah region to protest against the illegal construction within Palestinian territory. After aggression from both the Israeli army and armed settlers, two activists, Adeeb Abu Rahme and Neta Golan, were violently arrested at the…

  • Haaretz: Despite Supreme court order, The IDF is not dismantling the fence near Bil’in

    By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent Eight months after the High Court of Justice ordered the state to dismantle the segment of the separation fence near the Palestinian village of Bil’in within “a reasonable amount of time,” the Defense Ministry has yet to do so. It has not even begun to plan an alternative route there,…

  • Is Dubai helping ethnic cleansing in Palestine?

    From Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem The government of Dubai recently allowed a major bankroller of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank to open at least two Jewelry stores in the Gulf emirate. According to reliable sources in the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a key member-state, Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate…

  • Riad Elsohl Hamad – 1952-2008

    Palestinian Children’s Welfare Fund: Riad Hamad died on April 14, 2008 in Austin, Texas, a victim of drowning in Lady Bird Lake. He was a tireless advocate for Palestinians, and especially women and children living in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon. He created the Palestine Children’s Welfare Fund and raised millions of dollars…