Author: ISM Media Group

  • Work Continues on South Hebron Farm In the Face of Settler Pressure

    On the evening of Friday August 24th humanitarian workers from groups including the ISM, CPT and B’tselem accompanied the Jabaari family to their farm located between the exclusively Jewish Kiryat Arba and Givat Harsina settlements, near the old city of Hebron. For a number of months now, a tent erected by local settlers on part…

  • Umm Salamuna Demo Proceeds, Despite IOF Interference

    On Friday August 24 at 12:00pm around 40 Palestinians and 40 internationals gathered in Umm Salumuna, in the region of south Bethlehem, to protest the building of the apartheid wall. The village had been declared a military zone by the IOF, thus preventing anyone who didn’t live there from entering by road. However, this did…

  • 133rd Demonstration in Bil’in – IOF Violence Against Peaceful Demonstration

    Bil’in 24 august 2007 video: The 133rd consecutive demonstration against the illegal apartheid wall in bil’in took place today. The illegal wall segregates Palestinian farmers from their legitimately owned land depriving them of their livlihood and their economic means of survival. With approximately 100 demonstrators participating, of these around 50 were international and Israeli, and…

  • Eyal Weizman Interview: Israel’s Oppressive Architecture of Occupation

    Eyal Weizman interview: Israel’s oppressive architecture of occupation The Migron settlement Dissident architect Eyal Weizman explains the mechanics of Israel’s occupation of Palestine to Anindya Bhattacharyya The occupied West Bank, 1999. A group of Israeli settlers complain that their mobile phone reception cuts out on a bend in a road from Jerusalem to their settlements.…

  • Haaretz: Officer to Pay for Killing West Bank Teen

    By Fadi Eyadat The Hadera Magistrate’s Court has ordered an Israel Defense Forces officer and the Defense Ministry to pay NIS 500,000 to a Palestinian family after the officer killed their 16-year-old son in 2002. The officer, Captain Tzvi Koretzky, who was convicted of negligent homicide by a military court, shot and killed Mohammed Zayid…