Author: ISM Media Group

  • Women of the Underworld: On Being Thrown Out of Israel

    What stays with me most from the last few days is the kindness of women. Just ordinary women, caught in bad circumstances, being nice to one another.

  • Demonstration at Beit Furik checkpoint calling for its removal

    At 10am on Saturday 15th March 2008 approximately 50 Palestinians and internationals gathered at the Beit Furik checkpoint near Nablus to protest against the checkpoint. Internationals and residents of Nablus joined villagers from Beit Furik and Beit Dajan to march to the checkpoint – one of seven that surrounds the city of Nablus, cutting the…

  • Israeli army invade Nablus and occupy house

    At approximately 8:30am on Sunday morning Israeli army forces again invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Israeli soldiers surrounded an apartment building in Al Ein refugee camp, before occupying an empty apartment on the top floor. Nearby residents advised that the soldiers occupied the apartment for approximately three hours, before withdrawing. Ayam, who…

  • Bil’in Outpost Under Attack

    By Kobi On Friday night one of the Palestinian activist was beaten and threaten with murder by soldiers on patrol at the outpost. ( The outpost is a small room that the villagers of Bil’in built on their land separated from their village by the Apartheid Wall) Damage was also done to the structure and…

  • 5 years on, we remember Rachel Corrie

    This article was originally published in The Observer newspaper on the 2nd March 2008 It is impossible to underestimate quite how much life for Rachel Corrie’s family has changed since she was killed by an Israeli army Caterpillar D9 bulldozer in the Gaza Strip on 16 March 2003. As Rachel’s elder sister Sarah puts it:…