Author: ISM Media Group

  • Haaretz – Panel: Ultra-Orthodox settlement should be city, despite illegal construction

    By Akiva Eldar, published in Haaretz. To view original article click here The ultra-Orthodox settlement of Modi’in Illit in the West Bank should be granted city status despite suspicions that its council members were involved in authorizing illegal construction, an ad hoc committee set up by the Interior Ministry has recommended. The committee’s decision contradicts…

  • Settlers attack house in Asira al Qibliya, Nablus

    The home of Nahla Machmoud and Jamal Yousef Saleh Ahmad in the village of Asira al Qibliya, near Nablus, again came under attack from Israeli settlers from nearby illegal Israeli settlement Yitzhar in the early hours of Tuesday morning, as the family awoke to find their house covered in spray-painted stars of David. Six stars…

  • 16 year old boy murdered by Israeli soldiers at Huwarra checkpoint

    At 7pm on Monday 19th May, a 16 year old boy, Fihme Abdel Jawad Dardouk, was murdered by Israeli soldiers at the Huwarra checkpoint in Nablus. Israeli army spokespeople have since claimed that the boy, a volunteer in the Tanweer Cultural Enlightenment Centre, had three pipe-bombs strapped to his body. Eyewitnesses claim this is not…