Today, August 18, the Israeli army and Border Police tried to prevent the weekly non-violent demonstration of Palestinians, Israelis and internationals in Bil’in against the illegal confiscation of their farmland by the Apartheid Wall and settlements. They used brute force ...
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Teenage Settlers Hurl Glass Bottles at Human Rights Workers
By Missy and Giuseppe At approximately 1:00 PM on August 17th, settler boys were throwing rocks at Palestinian people descending the Qurtaba School stairs. One international human rights worker approached the area quickly, but was told by the soldier to ...
Read More »Bil’in Continues Struggle Despite Soldier Brutality
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tomorrow, August 18, 2006, at 9am Palestinians from the village of Bil’in will gather in the local playground at a school in Bil’in to hold a football game under the banner “Stop The Wall.” In the midst ...
Read More »Unstable Soldier Harasses Palestinians and Internationals
By Missy, Giuseppe, Gary and Sebastian At approximately 9 PM August 14th, human rights workers (HRW) living in Tel Rumeida went to the checkpoint to investigate a rumor of abuse of a Palestinian man by the soldiers there. They noticed ...
Read More »Soldiers Detain Palestinian Kids for getting hit with Settlers’ Rocks
By Missy At approximately 4:00 PM August 14th, while sitting at Checkpoint #56 in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, three Israeli soldiers escorted two Palestinian boys who appeared to be around ten years of age to the police station. The boys were ...
Read More »IWPS: 19 year old man shot at Huwarra checkpoint
12 August 2006 Today the International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS) visited a family in Haris whose son had been shot after he passed through Huwarra checkpoint on the way out of Nablus. Their son Salem is 19 years old and ...
Read More »B’Tselem and HaMoked:Israel’s freeze policy on family unification in the Occupied Territories splits tens of thousands of Palestinian families
15 August 2006 Today, B’Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, are publishing Perpetual Limbo , a report on Israel ‘s policy of freezing family unification for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Although the policy affects almost ...
Read More »Demonstrators Remain in Hospital for Head Injuries in Bil’in
Rina, center, carries fake bloody bodies with other demonstrators to represent an entire family killed by the Israeli army FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rina Klauman, a Danish citizen from Copenhagen, and Lymor Goldstein, Israeli and formerly of Germany are still being ...
Read More »Army Demolishes Homes in Askar Refugee Camp
IOF armoured bulldozer used to demolish homes in Askar camp FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today, August 15th 2006, at approximately 1 am, soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) launched a military incursion into the Askar Refugee Camp (population 15,000), in ...
Read More »Israeli Soldier in Bil’in: “This is Lebanon!”
Israeli activists have uploaded a video of the shooting of Lymor and the initial violence of the Israeli military in Bil’in on Friday, August 11th. To view it click here. Higher quality for broadcast is also available from the ISM ...
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