Author: ISM Media Group

  • Israeli authorities confiscate land from Deir Sharaf to build new checkpoint

    Israeli authorities have recently removed Beit Iba checkpoint, north of the city of Nablus, only to build a new checkpoint 2km away on the same road.  This new checkpoint is located west of the village of Deir Sharaf, closer to the illegal Israeli settlement of Shave Shomeron.  The new checkpoint is being built on at…

  • Beit Liqya commemorates Land Day by planting trees near martyr’s graves

    On the 31st of March, at 10:30am, villagers in Beit Liqya marked Land Day by planting trees near the graves of two villagers killed by Israeli forces during demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall in 2005.  Beit Liqya is located in the Ramallah district of the central West Bank.  Around 200 villagers, supported by Israeli and…

  • Gazan farmers continue their work despite army shooting

    On the morning of the 1st of April, ISM Gaza Strip activists returned to accompany Palestinian farmers in the area of Khouza’a, east of Khan Younis.  This is the same area where farmers working their fields were almost shot on the 24th of February.  The fields are far away from the Israeli watchtowers and about…