Author: ISM Media Group

  • Atira: Road Closures Restrict Palestinians from leaving their own Village

    Atira – 12th August 2007 At 8:00am, Palestinian, Israeli and international activists participated in a demonstration against the closure of the only road leading out of the village of Atira. Approximately 60 people gathered together chanting slogans and waving banners to protest the limited access they have to and from their own village. The demonstration…

  • Hebron: Israeli Military Shuts Down Palestinian Business in Old City Market

    Hebron – 10/8/2007 Early on the morning of the 9th of August inside Hebron’s old ministry square, Abu Hatim Jaudat Hasula’s hardware store was locked up and welded shut by the Israeli occupation forces. The 64-year-old shopkeeper had dared to defy both the Israeli occupation forces’ illegitimate threats and the appeasing surrender of other local…

  • Bethlehem: Michigan Peace Team Report

    MPT August, 2007 Report #4 On Friday, August 10, Bill and Peter took a taxi to Al Walaja west of Bethlehem to join in the demonstration against the construction of the separation wall/fence and confiscation of the residents’ land by the Israeli military. When the wall is completed, it will entirely encircle the village, making…