Author: ISM Media Group

  • Taking the piss out of war games in Hebron

    by: Yifat Appelbaum Israeli soldiers in Hebron sometimes do exercises to practice for combat situations. Ok, I can accept that. They need to always be on their toes in case there is a terrorist, right? *wink wink nudge nudge* But when they do it around Palestinian homes it is just a form of harassment, the…

  • Israeli settler attacks Palestinian girl, Police detain four human rights workers

    Israeli settler attacks Palestinian girl by ISM Hebron, 28 April 2007 On Tuesday, April 24, just after 11 am, two human rights workers (HRWs), an Israeli and an international, saw a settler boy from the Tel Rumeida Settlement beat a Palestinian girl as she was making her way home from school. The six border police…

  • PNN: Gathering Steam in South Bethlehem

    Nonviolent Activism Gathers Steam in Southern Bethlehem by Sami Awad, April 27th, 2007 To see video, click HERE The southern villages of Bethlehem have been organizing weekly nonviolent resistance activities to the building of the Apartheid Wall that will ultimately separate the farmers from these villages from 70% of their agricultural land. The activity this…

  • Residents of Al Hadidiya to Resist Home Demolitions

    Residents in Al Hadidiya prepare to Resist the Demolition of their Homes from Brighton Palestine, 27 April 2007 The residents of Al Hadidya have been awaiting army action since April 21st when a court ruling came into effect ordering them to leave and for the demolition of their homes. Al Hadidya is a collection of…

  • Amnesty Int’l: Al Hadidiya – Urgent Action Alert Launched

    House Demolition/forced eviction from Amnesty International, 27 April 2007 East Med Team PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 15/029/2007 On 10 April, the Israeli army served demolition orders on all the residents of the Palestinian Bedouin village of Hadidiya, in the Jordan Valley in the east of the occupied West Bank, giving them until 21 April to…