Author: ISM Media Group

  • Hebron settlers trespass on Palestinian family’s land with IOF complicity

    by ISM Hebron, November 26th November 15 At 12 noon a human rights worker at the crossing on Tel Rumeida St. noticed that there were two settlers on top of the military outpost on Palestinian land next to a huge old olive tree. He photographed them. He raised the alarm and asked the soldiers who…

  • UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for action against Israeli practice of separating families

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE by The Campaign for the Right of Entry, November 26th Concluding her visit to the Israeli occupied Palestinian territory, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour called on UN member states to take action against Israel’s practice of denying foreign passport holders access to and residency in the occupied Palestinian territories.…

  • Apartheid travel ban on Palestinians in Israeli cars

    Three stories from Israeli and international press follow: Haaretz: “No more hitching in the West Bank” by Amira Hass, November 23rd The O.C. Central Command, Yair Naveh, dropped a cluster bomb early this week. He signed an order barring Israeli citizens from taking Palestinian passengers in their Israeli vehicles within the West Bank. The order…

  • Haaretz: Military probe ordered in 2003 shooting of American in Nablus

    by Yuval Yoaz, November 26th The Military Advocate General, Brigadier General Avihai Mandelblit, has instructed military police investigators to open a probe into the question of whether Israel Defense Force soldiers bear criminal responsibility in the shooting of a 24-year-old American citizen and leftist activist in the Jenin refugee camp in April 2003. The investigation…

  • Palestinian children forced to go the long way home

    by ISM Hebron, November 21st At 11:50am: several HRWs (human rights workers) left the apartment to begin monitoring the return of Palestinian school children. The children left school with no problems. The HRWs stayed on Al Shuhada St. and monitored the area for an extended period of time in case children wanted to play. At…