Author: ISM Media Group

  • PHCR: “Four from One Family Killed and 3 Injured in Gaza City, 20 Killed and 193 Injured in El-Maghazi and Nablus”

    Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 22 July 2006, 11:00 GMT Large scale destruction in houses, agricultural fields, infrastructure, and governmental and security buildings In another crime of disproportionate use of lethal force, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed 4 members of one family on Friday, 21 July 2006. A mother, her 2 sons, and the sons’…

  • B’Tselem: Israeli Soldiers use civilians as Human Shields

    report from B’Tselem, 20th July 2006 B’Tselem’s initial investigation indicates that, during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2006, soldiers seized control of two buildings in the town and used residents as human shield. After seizing control of the buildings, the soldiers held six residents,…

  • Settlers Burn Farmer’s Roof; ISM Rebuilds Despite Intimidation

    Israeli Colonist Wear: tallis, tzitziyot, and masks by Harry Pockets On 22nd July, ISM activists and Israeli activists joined locals from Suseya to rebuild the roof of a farmer’s home that had been burned by neighbouring Israeli colonists. Suseya, an agricultural village located in the South Hebron hills, repeatedly has come under attack by Israeli…

  • A Flying Start to Freedom Summer 2006

    International Solidarity Movement Digest 7-19 to 7-23-2006 1.) A Flying Start to Freedom Summer 2006 2.) Israel Declares Greek Human Rights Worker a Security Threat 3.) Settlers in Hebron Continue Campaign of Harassment and Violence 4.) Bil’in Mourns Hundreds of Civilian Deaths 5.) US State Dept.: You’re on Your Own 6.) Israeli Soldiers Contaminate Water…

  • Police Seize Palestinian IDs

    by ISM Hebron, July 23 2006 5:30 Two Palestinian women from the Tel Rumeida neighborhood were on their way to visit their aunt in the hospital when the police stopped them for an ID check. Because one of the women was not wearing a headscarf, as is normal in the particularly religious city of Hebron,…