Author: ISM Media Group

  • Palestine Center: A Barrier to Peace

    By Samar Assad October 1st, 2007 As Palestinians and the international community exert effort in order to guarantee a successful mid-November peace meeting, Israel has focused its attention on another matter. Ahead of the planned high-level talks, Israel has published maps that reveal a change in the route of its Separation Wall. The new maps,…

  • Settlers steal two more flags from Issa’s house

    As part of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, hundreds of religious visitors traveled to the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday to view various religious sites and the settlements within the area. In previous years this event has coincided with incidences of violence towards local Palestinians and Human Rights Workers (HRWs), so efforts were…

  • Anti-wall Protests: army violence in Bil`in, relative restraint in Walaja

    By Ghassan Bannoura/John Smith IMEMC September 28, 2007 http://www.imemc.org/article/50679 http://www.imemc.org/article/50677 Video coverage Bil`in at http://mishtara.org/blog/?p=250 Nine injured in the weekly non violent protest at Bil`in At the weekly non violent protest at the village of Bil`in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, nine civilians were injured due to Israeli army attacks on…

  • Ha’aretz: Twilight Zone – The children of 5767

    By: Gideon Levy September 28th, 2007 It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than in many previous years. However, it was still a terrible year: 92 Palestinian children were killed (fortunately,…

  • New fence erected on anniversary of massacre

    September 27th, 2007 The regeneration of Issa’s house in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, carried on in earnest on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in 1994 by settler Baruch Goldstein, in which 29 Palestinians were murdered and 125 injured. Local activists together with international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) erected a wire fence…