Author: ISM Media Group

  • Counterpunch: “What Rachel Saw”

    by Sonja Karkar, March 15th A slip of a girl faced one of Israel’s most feared war machines in the Occupied Palestinian Territories–the armed bulldozer–and died. This deliberate killing was no accident. Maybe the Israeli authorities would have preferred it not to happen because of the public relations backlash, but the driver of the bulldozer…

  • YNet: “Court convicts Hebron settler for stoning Palestinian homes”

    by Efrat Weiss, March 14th Yifat Elkobi convicted for harassing her Palestinian neighbors; severity of her actions requires harsh punishment, judge says The Jerusalem Magistrates Court convicted Wednesday Yifat Elkobi, resident of the Jewish settlement in Hebron , for inappropriate conduct in public and causing damage to the house of a Palestinian family in 2001.…

  • War and Irony on Hebron Hilltops

    by Anna, March 10th No matter how bad things get in the North West Bank, it’s never as bad as in Hebron. I’m back in the ancient city exactly two years after my last visit: Previous Reports: http://annainpalestine.blogspot.com/2005/03/from-jericho-to-hebron.html http://annainpalestine.blogspot.com/2005/03/conversation-with-hamas-supporters.html I participated in several solidarity actions, among them school patrol in Tel Rumeida. This small Palestinian…

  • At the checkpoint – Qalandiya photo exhibition

    UPDATE: this exhibition has been postponed due to the bad weather

  • “We are still here”

    by the ISM media team, March 13th This was the message from the IOF commander of Jenin district to students from Zababda village south of Jenin when 15 students from the Arab American University and 6 students from the local secondary school were arrested early on Monday morning. During the three hour invasion the army…