Author: ISM Media Group

  • Israeli Supreme Court set to determine fate of investigation into shooting of US human rights activist

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Victim of injustice On August the 9th, 2006, the Supreme Court of Israel will hold a final hearing into the request for a criminal investigation into the shooting of International Solidarity Movement member Brian Avery on April the 5th, 2003. Avery, who was shot in the face by Israeli soldiers while working…

  • Armed Settler Militia Harrass Farmers in Beit Ummar

    by Ernesto At 8:30am on Sunday, July 30th, six internationals accompanied Abu Ayyash and Yousef, both farmers, and Ahmed, a local organizer, from Beit Ummar, to spray their grapes with pesticides. Despite aggressive activity by settler militia and an Israeli military presence, the farmers successfully completed their tasks. The Karme Tzur settlement has been constructed…

  • Israeli Special Forces Excecute Two in Nablus

    AP photo: Ewijan after he was taken to the morgue by Michael Last night, in the Ash Sheikh Musallem district of Nablus’s Old city, undercover agents of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) carried out two extra-judicial assassinations. According to eyewitness accounts, the IOF undercover soldiers entered the area in civilian clothing, in a civilian car,…

  • Israeli Military Harrassment of Human Rights Workers in Hebron Continues

    On July 28th, a human rights worker (HRW) was sitting by checkpoint 56 (which is the main entrance to Tel Rumeida, Hebron from the Palestinian controlled H1 area) from about 12 noon til 3:00 in order to monitor the behavior of the soldiers. During this time she was also drawing the surrounding buildings in her…

  • IOF Death Threats, Harrasment & Interrogation – Life in Balata as “Normal”

    by Micheal and Lina Last night, July 28th, at approximately 3:00 am, Saeed Haettalla, 53, from Balata refugee camp, was arrested and interrogated for the second time in two day, aparently without reason. In the middle of the night, Saeed was awoken by over 30 soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF), backed by six…