Author: ISM Media Group

  • Non-violent Bil’in activist Ayad Burnat, released on bail

    by the ISM media team, November 28th from a demonstration on 8th September this year Bil’in peace activist Ayad Burnat, who was arrested at a peaceful demonstration in Bil’in last Friday has been released from Ofer military prison on NIS 4,000 bail. He was detained for four days on the false charges of violating a…

  • Soccer showdown shakes shuhada street

    by ISM Hebron, November 28th On Sunday, at around 2:30pm, three neighborhood kids came by our place for the afternoon soccer game they’d scheduled with us. I was not planning on playing, and I am no good at soccer, but playing against 11-year-olds evens the odds a bit. So we bought two soccer balls, pumped…

  • Carmel-Agrexco’s UK headquarters blockaded for the third time

    from Indymedia UK, November 27th For the second time this year [previous action], Palestine Solidarity activists blockaded Israeli company Carmel-Agrexco’s UK headquarters in Hayes, Middlesex, in the early morning of 26 Nov 2006 [press release]. The action was part of an ongoing non-violent protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in the…

  • Apartheid wall legitimized by Israeli supreme court

    Haaretz: “Court rejects petition to change route of J’lem envelope fence” by Yuval Yoaz, November 26th An expanded panel of nine High Court of Justice judges, headed by retired Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, on Sunday rejected petitions claiming the route of the West Bank separation fence near the village of Bir Naballah, north of…

  • Ynet: “Politics of uncertainty”

    by Laila al-Hadad, November 27th, Hope gives way to disappointment as Palestinians wait for crossing to open My family and I are on our way back to Gaza from the US. We flew in to Cairo last week, and from there embarked on a five hour taxi ride to the border town of al-Arish, 50…