by Matthew Kalman, September 23rd Immigration crackdown in West Bank EL-BIREH, West Bank — Nariman Yazbak and her 2-year-old daughter, Salma, left their home in the West Bank town of El Bireh last April for a routine visit to relatives ...
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Harry Potter and the Spell of Transportation
Harry Potter during his guest appearance in Hebron by Alizarin Crimson and Harry Potter At 6:45 PM on September 22nd, human rights workers (HRWs) in Hebron paid a visit to their neighbors, the Abu Haikals where they were shocked, SHOCKED ...
Read More »Tarqumia “Terminal” – A Checkpoint by Any Other Name
by Lilly Six hours. This is how long Palestinians have to wait before they can pass the “terminal” at Tarqumia in the West Bank, which leads either into Israel or, eventually on to the Gaza Strip. The soldiers at the ...
Read More »Popular Committee Member Targetted in Bil’in
by an ISM Media office volunteer At the weekly anti-Wall protest in Bil’in today around 75 villagers, internationals and Israelis tried to march to the site of the illegal Wall but were stopped by soldiers on the edge of the ...
Read More »Haaretz: “Routine Anarchy” of the Israeli Colonies
by Akiva Eldar, September 21st Last Tuesday, the Interior Ministry held another session of the inquiry commission on changing Modi’in Ilit’s status from that of a local council to a city. Ostensibly, this is a routine process of upgrading a ...
Read More »Palestinian and International Activists Remove Roadblock
by Palestine Solidarity Project On September 21, 2006, in the village of Al-Jab’a, Palestinian and international activists partially removed an earth mound roadblock that separates the Palestinian village of Al-Jab’a from the Palestinian village of Surif. In 2002, Israeli Occupation ...
Read More »Israeli Colonist Attacks Continue Against Beit Ommar Farmer
by Palestine Solidarity Project On September 20, 2006, in the village of Beit Ommar, activists with the Palestine Solidarity Project visited the farmland of Abu Jaber and his brother Abu Sameer. This is the third time that activists with the ...
Read More »Illegal Barriers in Hebron Region Destoryed
by Palestine Solidarity Project On September 15, 2006, Palestinian and international activists removed large sections of a razor wire barrier erected on Palestinian land in the Al-Khalil (Hebron) region, and designed to isolate and bisect a village. The fence was ...
Read More »Ynet: “Israeli army’s complicity with settlers must end”
Army must make law enforcement against settlers a policy backed by action by Mooky Dagan , Thursday 21st September For years human rights organizations have pointed out the complicity between the Israel Defense Forces command headquarters in the Occupied Palestinian ...
Read More »The Independent : “Gaza: The children killed in a war the world doesn’t want to know about”
by Donald Macintyre in Rafah, Tuesday 19th September Nayef Abu Snaima says his 14-year-old cousin Jihad had been sitting on the edge of an olive grove talking animatedly to him about what he would do when he grew up when ...
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