Author: ISM Media Group

  • Eleven Children Held Captive by Israeli Army

    Nablus, Palestine Eleven children have been held captive by the Israeli army since 5am yesterday morning. They are being held in an apartment on the 8th floor of a building the army has turned into a sniper nest. A young boy, the only captive medical volunteers have been allowed to contact, reported that the families…

  • The hope for a peaceful solution?

    Palestinian and Israeli Activists Demonstrate Together in Bil’in Joel Beinin has written a thought provoking review of Shlomo Ben-Ami’s Scars of War, Wounds of Peace in the April 17th issue of The Nation. It’s well worth reading in full, and Beinin finishes on an optimistic note: Where, then, is the hope for a peaceful solution…

  • Palestinian civilians pay with their lives for IDF’s refusal to publish open-fire regulations

    From B’Tselem: B’Tselem today urged IDF Chief-of-Staff Dan Halutz and Judge Advocate General Avihai Mandelblit to make public immediately the open-fire regulations that have been given to soldiers in the Occupied Territories. The request follows publication of an IDF report that verifies human rights organizations’ repeated claims that the regulations are unclear and can be…

  • Israelis ‘detain’ Hamas minister

    From the BBC Hamas officials say Israeli police have detained a cabinet minister from the new Hamas-led Palestinian government. Khaled Abu Arafa, minister of Jerusalem affairs, was arrested on the outskirts of East Jerusalem, the officials said. Hamas said Mr Abu Arafa, a resident of the city, had been detained several times by Israel in…

  • Jane’s Journal

    Jane’s Journal Demonstration I came back from Hebron to go to the Bil’in demo which happens every week on Fridays. Last Friday a delegation of foreign diplomats from about 8 European countries visited Bil’in and met with the Popular Committee. Apparently they observed the demonstration but I didn’t see them. Some people felt the Israeli…