Author: ISM Media Group

  • Ni’lin hold shoe demonstration against the occupation

    19th December 2008 At noon on Friday 19th December, around 150 protesters from the village of Ni’lin, joined by international and Israeli solidarity activists, gathered in the village to protest against the construction of the Apartheid Wall being built on Ni’lin’s land. This demonstration took the form of a prayer protest on land close to…

  • Stop The Wall: “Our struggle will continue until the Wall is torn down!”

    By Mohammed Othman Jayyous 19-12-2008 To view the Stop The Wall website click here A massive demonstration against the Wall was held in Jayyous on December 19, with about 700 people, mostly youth, protesting against the new path of the Wall that will permanently confiscate nearly 6,000 dunums of village land. The demonstration, which lasted…

  • Northern West Bank under attack as Israeli forces terrorise Palestinian villages

    From Thursday 18th to Friday 19th December, Israeli military forces invaded multiple villages and cities in the Northern West Bank; including Nablus, Burin, Beita, Jenin and Araba – occupying homes, destroying property, and terrorising families. In the case of Beita, the incursion coincided with Israeli authorities cutting all water supplies to the village of 12000…

  • Free Gaza Movement: Dignity pulls into Gaza Port despite Israeli threats

    Vittorio Arrigoni, one of the ISM volunteers kidnapped from Palestinian waters by the Israeli navy has returned to Gaza on-board the ‘Dignity’. Vittorio was deported by Israel, after engaging in a hunger-strike for the return of the Palestinian fishing trawlers stolen by the Israeli navy, despite never having been inside Israeli territory. He now returns…

  • The Guardian: My expulsion from Israel

    When I arrived in Israel as a UN representative I knew there might be problems at the airport. And there were By Richard Falk (Special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories) To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 19th December, click here On December 14, I arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel…