Author: ISM Media Group

  • Sarra Residents Fight Settlements Through Non-Violent Roadblock Removal

    Sarra, Nablus Region 08/20/07 Today at 8:30 in the morning, 16 ISM human rights workers joined over a hundred local Palestinian villagers and activists in an attempt to remove a roadblock. Normally a journey from Sarra to Nablus would take five minutes, but since five years ago a roadblock has been placed, effectively making it…

  • Video: Israeli Soldiers Beating Palestinian Children at a Checkpoint

    The footage Footage captured by an independent American filmmaker on Wednesday 15 August, at the Ras at-Tira checkpoint in the Qalqiliya District, and shows the three children attempting to cross the checkpoint in a horse cart when they are stopped by two Israeli soldiers. The female soldier is clearly shown beating the boys before spitting…

  • Epilogue: Get Out and Stay Out

    By Katie This is the “and Stay Out” part. Friday morning I left Ramallah for Egypt to see Jonas in Sinai and to give him some of his stuff. I road a bus from Jerusalem to Eilat and was going to cross the border from Eilat, Israel into Taba, Egypt. I gave Jonas a ballpark…