Author: ISM Media Group

  • Sound bomb dropped on Bil’in villager’s foot

    by the ISM media team, February 9th At today’s weekly protest against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in a soldier dropped a sound bomb on a peaceful protester who was part of group holding a sit-in near the gate to the Wall. The bomb exploded on the foot of Bil’in villager Husam Khatib. Husam received medical…

  • The Third Annual Apartheid Week comes to New York

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The 3rd annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take place in New York City from February 10-17 2007. It will be a week-long series of events organized by a coalition of different groups in the city and will feature lectures, film screenings, and cultural activities. Concurrent events are being held in Canada…

  • Old City invasion in Hebron

    by ISM Hebron, February 8th At around 11.30 this morning a group of soldiers went through checkpoint 56 (the main checkpoint into Tel Rumeida) in response to a demonstration in the Bab Al-Zawiye market area against the excavations damaging the foundations of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The soldiers went to the top floor…

  • Update from the South Hebron Hills

    from reports by Operation Dove, February 8th Two Palestinian families near Mnser attacked by a colonist On the morning of Saturday 20th January about twelve Israeli activists came to accompany farmers plowing their fields near Israeli colonies. Two human rights workers (HRWs) and the Israeli activists went first to Mufagara and then to Kharuba where…

  • Free the City demonstration in Hebron this Friday

    UPDATE: this demonstration will now take place inside the Tel Rumeida district due to the tense situation in the Bab Al-Zawiye area. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Friday 9th February local residents will gather in the centre of Hebron to protest restrictions of movement in their city, including the closure of Shuhada street, the main route…