Author: ISM Media Group

  • Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians Continues in Jordan Valley

    by the ISM media team, January 25th On Tuesday 23rd January IOF bulldozers carried out the latest round of home demolitions in the Jordan Valley as part of the ongoing attempt to ethnically cleanse the valley of its indigenous inhabitants. Six Palestinian homes were destroyed in Al Jiftlik Village, and one home and a reservoir…

  • Soldier ‘attacked’ by HRWs in Hebron – soldier: “this is fun”

    by ISM Hebron, January 24th Today in Tel Rumeida, at around 1:45, two human rights workers (HRWs) were detained for supposedly attacking a soldier at the main Tel Rumeida checkpoint after the soldier became aggravated over a third HRW refusing to show her passport. The activists were all gathering to celebrate one of their birthdays.…

  • “They’re the army. They’re always right”

    by Yifat Appelbaum, January 24th A. made some fried squash tonight at the office. He looked a little more serious than he usually looks. As we were eating, he told me a story. “Today I was at Qalandia,” he started, “Some army jeeps started going down the road towards Ramallah. And there were some kids.”…

  • OCHA: South Hebron farmers to face difficult year in 2007

    from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 2007 is set to be a particularly hard year for the Palestinian farmers of the South Hebron Hills, who have already had much of their land annexed by Israeli colonies and face frequent violence and harrassment from Israeli colonists and the IOF. OCHA states:…

  • Haaretz: “Checkpoint comradeship”

    by Amira Hass, January 24th Anyone who wants to become acquainted with Israeli society should go to the checkpoints. Not for a quarter of an hour, under the guidance of commanders who will glory in the pavilion they built for the people waiting in line and will explain that the upgrading and the expansion of…