Author: ISM Media Group

  • Targeted killing won’t bring peace

    By Mustafa Barghouti, Int’l Herald Tribune RAMALLAH, West Bank–As we enter the 41st year of Israel’s military occupation, one of the more sinister policies inflicted upon us is what Israel calls “targeted killings.” Israel applies no death penalty, except against Palestinians living under Israeli military government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. There, suspected…

  • AFP: Legendary Israel PM’s grandson is barrier protester

    from Agence France Presse JERUSALEM (AFP) – A grandson of Israel’s legendary right-wing prime minister Menachem Begin is a regular protester against the country’s controversial West Bank separation barrier, media reported on Thursday. The tabloid-style Maariv newspaper published a photograph of 32-year-old Avinadav Begin and a young Palestinian facing off with Israeli soldiers in riot…

  • Taking it to the street in Um Salamona

    by ISM Hebron, 9 June 2007 At approximately 1:00 pm, about 200 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals gathered at a home in the village of Um Salamona to demonstrate against the 40 year brutal Occupation of the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Golan Heights, and against the construction of the Israeli apartheid wall. On their way…

  • Tear Gas canisters from Israeli army cause fires in Bil’in olive groves, 6 demonstrators arrested

    Many internationals joined the Palestinians and Israeli activists during today’s demonstration at Bil’in village. The Israeli forces didn’t even allow the demonstration to approach the barbed wire they had put at the road at a point halfway between the first houses of the village and the Apartheid Wall. As soon as the demonstrators left the…

  • RCUV: Israeli police destroy family homes in Negev

    from The Regional Council for the Unrecognized Negev Arab Villages Yesterday, Wednesday June 6th 2007, at 8:45am the bulldozers came accompanies by hundreds of police officers to the village of Hashem Zaneh in the Israeli Negev and demolished four structures belonging to the Abu-Ghanimeh family. The first belonged to a family of eight: parents and…