Author: ISM Media Group
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Armed Israeli Colonists Move Freely While Army Restricts Palestinian Movement
by ISM Hebron and Tel Rumeida Project For video evidence from this day: click here to view or click here to download. A description of each part of the video is at the end of this report. At 1.30pm on Sunday 8th October 2006, soldiers closed the main checkpoint into Tel Rumeida, Hebron (checkpoint 56)…
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Six-hundred people attend landmark conference in Toronto
Coalition against Israeli Apartheid, October 9th Over 600 people attended the landmark conference, Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: The Struggle Continues, held from 6-8 October in Toronto, Canada. The conference represents a watershed moment in the Palestinian solidarity movement, with leading anti-apartheid activists from Palestine, South Africa, Canada and England addressing the way forward in the global…
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Palestinian Resident of Hebron Detained for Sitting on the Street
by ISM Hebron On Saturday the 7th of October at 2pm about ten Israeli settlers, aged 15 to 20, harassed Palestinians on the hill above Beit Hadassah settlement in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. Palestinians were afraid to go home and international human right workers observing were attacked by settlers who tried to push the video camera…
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The Times: “Rabbi leads defence of Palestinian olive groves”
The Times of London, October 9th. by Ian Mackinnon Editorial note: A reporter from The Times of London joined Palestinian farmers accompanied by ISM, IWPS and Rabbis for Human Rights volunteers for picking as recorded in this report on our site. His report, focusing on the Rabbis, was published in the Times and on their…
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Israel Arrests Bil’in Journalist
UPDATE, October 11th, 4.25pm: Emad’s attorney Gaby Laski informs us that at the appeal hearing held today, the Israeli military decided to launch an indictment against Emad. The judge will make a ruling tomorrow at 4pm. UPDATE, October 10th: At a hearing today at Ofer military court the judge ordered Emad to be released, but…