Author: ISM Media Group

  • The story of Sima – Female Political Prisoner

    Sima is a 35 year old Palestinian woman who was released approximately four months ago following two and a half years in an underground Israeli jail. She has four young children who were left without any parents during her stay in prison, as the Israeli army had assassinated her husband a little while prior to…

  • Gaza Residents Tell of Demeaning Questioning by Shin Bet

    By Amira Hass In the most recent Israel Defense Forces raids in the Gaza Strip, during which dozens of people were detained for interrogation by the Shin Bet, the security service adopted a procedure unknown in recent years: The detainees were forced to undress in the presence of another detainee and a soldier or a…

  • Israeli Soldier: “All Arab women Want to Kill Jews”

    On Sunday afternoon August 19th a Palestinian woman in her early thirties from the outskirts of Hebron was detained for 1 hour before being arrested at Tel Rumeida st. in the H2 district of the West Bank’s largest city. International human rights workers immediately intervened to prevent an aggressive colonial Jewish settler female from taking…

  • ILA leasing Arab-owned land in Jerusalem to Ateret Cohanim

    By Meron Rapoport, Haaretz Correspondent The Israel Lands Administration (ILA) is working together with the Ateret Cohanim association to wrest from Palestinian landowners control of 30 dunams (7.5 acres) of land in East Jerusalem and to transfer it to the association without a tender. Such is the claim outlined in a petition submitted two weeks…

  • Sarra Residents Fight Settlements Through Non-Violent Roadblock Removal

    Sarra, Nablus Region 08/20/07 Today at 8:30 in the morning, 16 ISM human rights workers joined over a hundred local Palestinian villagers and activists in an attempt to remove a roadblock. Normally a journey from Sarra to Nablus would take five minutes, but since five years ago a roadblock has been placed, effectively making it…