FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On August 27, 2006, Hakim Ersan, a 12 year old boy from the village of Beit Fourik near Nablus, was shot by an Israeli colonist from the Aitmar settlement near his home. Hakim was playing with two ...
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Palestinian Activists with International and Israeli Supporters Picket Kofi Annan’s Visit
by ISM Media Office volunteers This afternoon, peace activists from the International Solidarity Movement joined Palestinians, Israelis, and international supporters from other organizations to picket the visit to Ramallah of Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations. Mr Annan ...
Read More »Settler Children Burn Down Palestinian Olive Tree in Hebron, Israeli Soliders Block Firefighters
by ISM Hebron On Saturday August 26th, at approximately 12 noon, a Palestinian family in Tel Rumeida, (in the Israeli controlled H2 district of Hebron) noticed a group of settler boys setting fire to the dry grass in front of ...
Read More »Israeli Company Blockaded in Britan For the Second Time in Bid to Gain Ruling on Illegality of Settlement Products
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Early Wednesday morning Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli company Carmel Agrexco’s British headquarters. This was part of a non-violent protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in the Israeli occupied territories of Palestine. ...
Read More »Israeli Army Destroying Olive Trees in Jenin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 29th, 2006 in the town of Zububa in the Jenin region, Israeli soldiers are currently destroying large swaths of Palestinian olive groves. The attacks began around 7:00 in the morning with American-made Caterpillar armoured bulldozers, and ...
Read More »Partial Demolition of Israeli Colony in Bil’in
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Monday, August 28th, two structures were demolished in the illegal Israeli settlement of Matityahu East, on the land of Bil’in village. Construction of the settler colonies had continued until an Israeli court issued a stop work ...
Read More »Israeli Assault on Balata
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This morning, two Palestinian resistance fighters were killed by Israeli military during an incursion into Balata refugee camp just outside of Nablus. Another young man was shot in the stomach and is, according to sources at Rafidia ...
Read More »Palestinian Children Assaulted by Israeli Army
by ISM Hebron On Sunday August 27th, two HRWs were on Shuhada Street in front of the military post which watches the Beit Hadassa settlement in Hebron. At around 5 p.m. a group of six Palestinian kids between approximately 10 ...
Read More »Israeli Army Harrassment in Hebron Continues
Eyewitness reports from two days in Hebron by Missy Soldiers violently attack Palestinian man in his home: August 25th, 2006 To watch video of this event, click here. To download it, click here. There were two cameras filming most, if ...
Read More »Israeli Army Kills 15 year old Demonstrator, Injures 12, and Demolishes Houses
To view a video of the initial violence of the Israeli military and a collective punishment click here. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nablus, Palestine–Today, August 26, 2006, in the Jabal Shamali neighborhood of Nablus, soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) ...
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