Author: ISM Media Group

  • Ynet: “Look who’s been kidnapped”

    Hundreds of Palestinian ‘suspects’ have been kidnapped from their homes and will never stand trial Israeli reservist Arik Diamant | Ynet It’s the wee hours of the morning, still dark outside. A guerrilla force comes out of nowhere to kidnap a soldier. After hours of careful movement, the force reaches its target, and the ambush…

  • Ha’aretz: “UN aid chief warns Gaza is on the verge of humanitarian crisis”

    by the Associated Press, 30th June Gaza is three days away from a deadly humanitarian crisis unless Israel promptly restores fuel and electricity to the densely populated area after its offensive to free an abducted soldier, the United Nations aid chief warned on Thursday. “They are heading for the abyss unless they get electricity and…

  • Independent: “Gaza: ‘The children wake up screaming. I am worried it will damage them’”

    Palestinian boy looks at the destruction of a school in Gaza after an early morning Israeli strike July 5th. (AP Photo/Laura Leon) by Donald Macintyre, 3rd of July Mahmoud Mughari speaks bluntly. “I normally wash and shower twice a day. Now I can only do it every four or five days. The children smell. We…

  • Bulldozers Stopped, Palestinian Activist Still Arrested

    by Em and Zadie in Beit Ummar UPDATE, 6th July: As far as we have been able to acsertain, Musa Abu-Marya still remains a captive of the Shabak. Download video here Yesterday in Beit Ummar, a village of 15,000 in the Israeli occupied West Bank, non-violent direct action continued in opposition to the illegal Israeli…

  • Robert Novak: “Holy Land Christians blame Israel”

    by Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, 3rd of July On June 19, two young members of Congress received an extraordinary letter from Jerusalem. On behalf of Christian churches in the Holy Land, they were told a House resolution they were circulating blaming the Palestinian Authority for Christian decline there “is based on many false affirmations.”…