Author: ISM Media Group

  • The Guardian: “Time to get serious about Israel”

    by John Hilary, January 31st You know that things are serious when a parliamentary select committee puts out a call for sanctions against another sovereign state. Doubly so when that state is supposed to be one of Britain’s key allies in the Middle East. Yet today the House of Commons international development committee is calling…

  • Shepherd Abducted for Nothing in Tel Rumeida

    by ISM Hebron, February 2nd Yesterday shepherd Bilal Il Qadi was abducted from his home in Tel Rumeida at around 2pm by the IOF after a sheep had been seen in an olive grove on CCTV. The sheep was seen in an olive grove belonging to the Abu Haykel family, which is frequently used to…

  • Villager beaten and arrested at Bil’in

    by the ISM media team, February 2nd UPDATE 10.30: Farhat Burnat will be held at Ofer Military Detention Centre for another 4 days on suspicion of ‘assaulting a soldier’. Many Bil’in residents have been abducted and held at Ofer on trumped up charges only to have their cases collapse due to lack of evidence. Farhat…

  • YNet: “Prosecution: Soldiers must detain settlers harassing Palestinians”

    by Aviram Zino, February 2nd Following incident caught on video in which soldiers failed to interfere while female settler harassed Palestinian neighbor in Hebron, State Prosecutor’s office rules: Soldiers must block violence towards people, property and alert police When a soldier witnesses settler violence towards Palestinians or their property, he must detain the suspects and…

  • Civil Rights Lesson and Art Class at Hebron Checkpoint

    by ISM Hebron, February 1st Today at 2pm ISM Hebron held a teach-in at the Tel Rumeida checkpoint in Hebron. The kids learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and his successful non-violent struggle for the freedom and civil rights of black people in the United States. We compared the situation of black Americans during segregation…