Author: ISM Media Group

  • “We are a Democracy!”

    by Hugh, March 11th Walking through Bethlehem yesterday I was stopped by a taxi driver I have come to know over the years, Abu Anwar. He seemed agitated and angry. He knows of my work over here and was keen for me to go back to his house to show me what had happened during…

  • Volunteers rebuild demolished homes – An Appeal

    by the ISM media team, March 11th The rebuilding effort described below requires finances that the local Palestinians, impoverished by the ongoing siege, do not have. The materials for the rebuilding were bought on credit so that the villagers could live in houses again as soon as possible – they had been living in tents…

  • Hebron settlers trespass in Palestinian family’s olive orchard

    by ISM Hebron, March 10th For the second time this week settlers from Hebron broke into and trespassed in an olive orchard belonging to a Palestinian family in Tel Rumeida. On neither occasion did the Hebron police or the IOF take any action against the trespassers. On Wednesday afternoon a settler woman with four children…

  • Second Annual Conference in Bil’in 18 – 20 April 2007

    1. Second Annual Conference in Bil’in 18 – 20 April 2007 2. Second Casualty and Other Victims of Operation Hot Winter 3. Settler assaults on internationals in Tel Rumeida and tree planting in Beit Omar 4. Purim attacks on Palestinians in Hebron 5. Nablus women celebrate Women’s Day at Huwwara checkpoint 6. Two hospitalised at…

  • Tree planting and Tom Fox memorial in Tel Rumeida

    by ISM Hebron, March 9th Palestinian activists from the International Solidarity Movement organized a tree planting session in Tel Rumeida on Friday. This was advertised widely and many local Palestinians, Israeli activists and Internationals came to join them with around 30 people in all. Organisations represented included ISM, EAPPI (World Council of Churches), Sons of…