Author: ISM Media Group

  • IOF attack Qalandia demo against Gaza atrocities

    by aspiringnomad On Sunday November 19, Palestinian activists joined by international supporters held a non-violent demonstration at Qalandia checkpoint near Ramallah in solidarity with the people of Gaza against the ongoing Israeli attacks and the Beit Hanoun massacre. Around 50 protesters unfurled banners, and used red paint spattered dolls to symbolise the killing of innocent…

  • Streets of Hate: a journal entry on attacks in Hebron

    by aspiringnomad, November 20th His panic-stricken little face lights up when he receives the information that we’ll escort him home, sending him skipping merrily down the road on an errand to buy potatoes. This is the Palestinian Authority controlled area of Hebron, and as we cross through Tel Rumeida checkpoint to the other side in…

  • Tuwani accompaniment reaps partial success, despite settler farce

    by aspiringnomad On Saturday 18th November a group of Israeli and international human rights workers met up with Palestinian farmers to plow fields in the shadow of an illegal Israeli outpost near the village of Tuwani. The joint Israeli-international accompaniment hoped to discourage Israeli settler attacks, by splitting into four groups and plowing simultaneously so…

  • Haaretz: “25-year-old Palestinian shot for protesting IDF’s treatment of women”

    by Amira Hass, November 19th A critically wounded Palestinian youth is hospitalized at Beilinson, allegedly after Israeli soldiers shot at him for protesting their treatment of women. Heitham Yassin, 25 years old, has been under heavy sedation and on a respirator since the November 4 incident. Yassin’s doctors have told a lawyer for the family…

  • Swedish human rights worker viciously attacked by Jewish extremists in Hebron

    by ISM Hebron, November 18 UPDATE, November 22nd: Tove has been released from hospital and will return home soon. The Jerusalem Post has reported Swedish government dissatisfaction with the Israeli investigation into the attack on Tove: “The Swedish government is dissatisfied with Israel’s investigation of an attack in the contentious West Bank city of Hebron…