Author: ISM Media Group

  • Once again, Azzoun is under curfew; internationals and Palestinians assaulted during warantless house invasion

    February 16th Today Azzoun was again under curfew, after six hours of free movement in the town, Border Police drove in at 11 am and announced that the curfew had been reinstated. Throughout the day two Border Police jeeps roamed the town, throwing sound bombs, shooting live ammunition, and randomly beating people in the streets.…

  • Weekly demonstration in Bil’in

    On February 15, 2008, around 80 Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists took part in the weekly Friday demonstration in the village of Bi’lin against the illegal Annexation Wall. The Wall cuts off 60% of Bi’lin’s agricultural land and, in a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court, has been ordered taken down and moved back. The…

  • Beit Ummar Curfew

    At 1 am on the 13th of February the village of Beit Ummar was invaded by Israeli soldiers and put under military curfew. Over 40 people were arrested as the area was declared a closed military zone. The press were turned away at the gate and those who found another way in were escorted out…