Author: ISM Media Group

  • Small Incursion in Beit Ummar

    by Jonas and Signifier Yesterday June 12, at approximately 3:00pm in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, Isreal Occupation Forces shot tear gas cannisters at two human rights workers (HRW) that were sitting and eating plums in a backyard. As the activists attempted to cover the fume-spewing cannisters, three Palestinain children, the apparent targets…

  • TomDispatch.com: “The Palestinian Catastrophe, Then and Now”

    by Sandy Tolan, TomDispatch.com, July 10th, 2006 As 1.5 million Gazans suffer for one Israeli, Palestinians remember five July days in 1948 when they lost everything – and the world didn’t care. Under the pretext of forcing the release of a single soldier “kidnapped by terrorists” (or, if you prefer, “captured by the resistance”), Israel…

  • Fishing boats subjected to the Israeli army fire

    by Mona ElFarra, July 10th Mona with residents of Jabalia refugee camp Dear all, It is 11am , Monday , no electricity in my apartment for the last 18 hours ,I’m at home and I would like to share with you quickly what I have seen in front of my window , in the last…

  • SABC: “Apartheid Israel worse than SA apartheid: Cosatu”

    from the South African Broadcasting Corporation, July 10th The “apartheid Israel state” is worse than the apartheid that was conducted in South Africa, Willie Madisha, the Congress of SA Trade Unions president, said today. He said Palestinians were being attacked with heavy machinery and tanks used in war which had never happened in South Africa.…

  • Boston Globe: “My Life in Gaza”

    by Mona El-Farra, July 10, 2006 The irony is almost beyond belief. Since the capture of an Israeli soldier on June 25, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a large-scale military operation, what Israel calls “Summer Rain.” Because Israel bombed the power plant, and the area needs electricity to pump water, most of Gaza…