Author: ISM Media Group

  • Hamas forms new security branch

    By Laila el-Haddad Something strange is happening in Gaza. Municipality workers are actually working. The streets seem a bit cleaner. And for once, I actually saw a policeman arresting a criminal in a dramatic pick-up the other day, much to the chagrin of his gang, who stoned and shot at the police car (futilely), and…

  • Corporate Complicity in the Ethnic Cleansing of the Jordan Valley

    I was convinced by a friend to take a trip to the Jordan Valley this week. This is my fourth trip to Palestine but I have never visited the region and have heard relatively little about it. This is symptomatic of the condition of the valley, it is largely forgotten by the international community and…

  • Settlers Attack

    Settler graffiti on the Palestinan Qutarba girls school. Credit: Ann Detwiler. 22 April- A gang of 30 militant Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian grocery shop today, and assaulted the owner’s son and several others. The settlers flung sharpened metal bars as “spears” through the open doorway smashing produce jars and knocking goods from the shelves.…

  • Soldiers Beat Non-violent Demonstrators, Arrest Three

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Picture by CPT At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills- Israeli Occupation Forces beat non-violent Palestinian, international, and Israeli demonstrators this morning after declaring the area a Closed Military Zone. No map of the Closed Military Zone was ever shown to the protestors. At-Tuwani villagers, Palestinian activists, Christian Peacemaker Team members, Operation Dove members, and…

  • Anamaria’s Journal: Not Welcome Anymore

    I arrived at the airport 4 hours before take off. I was through check in after just one hour and no problems. But when I went through passport control, the woman there looked at the computer screen and went away with my passport. She came back a few minutes later with 2 other women and…