Author: ISM Media Group

  • Clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians in Ramallah

    by Sousan Hammad, I’m sitting in the ISC office in Ramallah. I get a phone call from one of the workers of the organization. I really could not understand what he was saying. He was yelling, “Don’t go outside, they are closing off the streets and the Israeli army are coming, whatever you do, don’t…

  • USA Today op-ed: “Israel’s new plan: A land grab”

    by Jimmy Carter New Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that Israel will take unilateral steps to establish its own geographical boundaries during the next four years of his administration. His plan, as described during the recent Israeli election and the formation of a new governing coalition, would take about half of the Palestinian West…

  • AP: “Church of Scotland: label settlement products”

    AP article from Jerusalem Post, 24th May 2006. The Church of Scotland has called on European authorities and the World Council of Churches to clearly identify products from illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands, a church official said Wednesday. The decision by the church’s General Assembly, meeting in Edinburgh, came after delegates were informed that…

  • Ramallah Invasion

    1. Israeli Army Invades Centre of Ramallah, Kill 3 Injure Scores May 24th 2. Sunbula’s journal: “Farmers in Bil’in successfully plow their land behind the Wall” 3. Wire Cutting Action in Beit Omar May 22nd 4. Successful Land-Access Action in Beit Omar 5. Shlomo’s Journal: “The Magic Answer” 6. How Many Escorts Does it Take…

  • Ha’aretz: “Despite High Court ban, settlers occupy Matityahu East homes”

    By Dan Keidar and Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondents, 24th May 2006 At least two settler families moved on Tuesday into apartments in a neighborhood of the West Bank settlement of Upper Modi’in that was built illegally on land belonging to the neighboring Palestinian village of Bil’in. The move came in flagrant disregard of a Supreme…