Author: ISM Media Group

  • Petition Challenges Israel’s practice of barring foreign passport holders from the Israeli occupied Palestinian territory

    Campaign for Right of Entry, December 12th The Jerusalem Legal Aid Center (JLAC), on December 11, petitioned the Israeli Civil Administration and the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to reinstate the processing of visitor permit renewal requests and to reinstate those whose permits have lapsed. JLAC attorney, Sliman Shahin, presented the petition on behalf of spouses…

  • Two Jerusalem House Demolitions

    by John, December 11th Last night human rights workers learned that there were going to be demolitions of houses in the Jerusalem district today so we travelled to Al ‘Isawiya. When we arrived we found that the house had already been destroyed and that the bulldozer had come at 5am. The father of the family…

  • Travel Warning – Bethlehem & Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine

    Campaign for Right of Entry, December 10th This Travel Warning is being issued to update information on the general security environment in Israel, Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, and to reiterate threats to foreign nationals, especially American citizens. Although the situation in Israel is seemingly calm, the fact of the matter remains…

  • Amnesty International Secretary-General visits Tel Rumeida

    Ma’an News: Amnesty International’s secretary-general visits Hebron, meets Old City family besieged by settlers December 7th, The secretary-general of Amnesty International is currently in the occupied Palestinian territories on a special tour to assess the human rights situation in light of the current situation. On Wednesday, the secretary-general, Irene Khan, visited the ancient holy city…

  • Palestine News Network: “Settlements further encroaching into Tubas; major loss imminent”

    by Ali Samoudi, December 10th The northern West Bank’s Tubas is under imminent threat by Israeli settlers who have long had their eye on the Palestinian town’s agricultural lands. The settlements are already encroaching onto the land with continual expansion. One of the leaders of the local community said that all facts indicate that there…