Author: ISM Media Group

  • Anniversary Demo of Mosque Massacre in Hebron

    by ISM Hebron, February 25th Today was the 13th anniversary of the Ibrahim Mosque massacre, in which 29 Palestinians were killed and another 125 injured. The massacre was carried out by Baruch Goldstein, a resident of the nearby Kiryat Arba settlement. Standing in front of the only exit from the cave and positioned to the…

  • Rampaging settlers given immunity by Hebron Police on Sabbath

    by ISM Hebron, February 25th At 11 am as Palestinian schoolchildren were leaving Qorduba School in Tel Rumeida, two Jewish settler teenage girls began to throw eggs at them from the roof beside the synagogue of the Beit Hadassah settlement. The children ran away and no one was hit. Human Rights Workers (HRWs) began to…

  • Haaretz: “Council approves illegal West Bank building plan”

    by Akiva Eldar, February 25th The Supreme Planning Council for Judea and Samaria recently legalized the largest-ever illegal construction project in the West Bank. Part of the project is situated on private land, which belongs to Palestinian residents of the village of Bil’in. The project calls for the construction of 42 buildings containing approximately 1,500…

  • Water cannon fails to dampen spirits on Bil’in second anniversary demo

    1. Water cannon fails to dampen spirits on Bil’in second anniversary demo 2. IOF occupies Palestinian house in Tel Rumeida – “We can do whatever we want” 3. Hebron colonists occupy Palestinian hilltop home 4. Anarchist activist Jonathan Pollak given 3 month suspended sentence 5. Yifat Alkobi leads colonist trespass on Tel Rumeida Hill 6.…

  • Haaretz: “Quality time”

    by Gideon Levy, The Jordanian MIRS chirps on the table. “Where’s Nur?” asks the woman on the line from Amman. “She’s standing next to me,” replies her husband in Azariyeh, east of Jerusalem. A chirp every few minutes. Yihye Bassa, a 40-year-old date merchant, has for several years been forbidden for security reasons to travel…