Author: ISM Media Group

  • Human Rights Defenders targetted in Hebron again

    by ISM Hebron, December 31st An international Human Rights Worker (HRW) was arrested by the IDF in the Hebron district of Tel Rumeida at 1:40 p.m today. He was accompanying five Palestinian men along Shuhada Street in their attempt to exercise their right to walk past the Beit Hadassah setlement as stipulated in a recent…

  • Not the Bethlehem of our thoughts

    by Leila Sansour, December 29th Christmas in Bethlehem this year was the most difficult in memory. This reality probably wouldn’t surprise most Americans who have a general sense of Middle East conflict. However, a survey we commissioned reveals that Americans are ignorant of many other basic facts about Bethlehem. Most Americans cannot identify our town’s…

  • Breakthrough for Palestinian Human Rights in Tel Rumeida

    1. Breakthrough for Palestinian Human Rights in Tel Rumeida 2. Announcements of Israeli Change of Policy Unfounded in Reality 3. Villagers Unite Against Apartheid Road 4. “Are you Fateh or Hamas?’ – “I am neither” 5. Transcript of BBC World Servce interview with Mary Baxter 6. IOF illegally detain international volunteers for four hours 7.…

  • Breakthrough for Palestinian Human Rights in Tel Rumeida

    by Sam, December 29th This morning at 10 a.m, three Palestinian residents of the Tel Rumeida District in Hebron accompanied by a handful of Israeli activists and media personnel as well as international volunteers successfully crossed an area off limits to Palestinians for the last six years. Tel Rumeida falls in the Occupation controlled H2…

  • Popular Committee Member shot in Bil’in

    by the ISM media team, December 29th The IOF shot rubber-coated steel bullets at Bil’in Popular Committee Member Abdullah Abu Rahme, wounding him twice in different parts of the leg. The soldier took aim and fired the bullets from less than 50 metres away at Abu Rahme’s leg after today’s peaceful demo against the Apartheid…