Author: ISM Media Group

  • We Shall Overcome

    by Mansour August 25, 2005 Today was another great picture of peace drawn by the Palestinian, international and Israeli peace activists as we protested against the wall being built on Palestinian land. I thought that, because some of us didn’t know the language of the others, we wouldn’t be able to participate in everything together.…

  • Silence of the Lambs

    by Aaron For several hours this afternoon, I participated in a non-violent demonstration against the construction of the Annexation Wall through the village of Bil’in. We internationals, along with Israeli peace activists, were asked by the people of Bil’in to join them in the demonstration. Bil’in is a Palestinian village that will lose more than…

  • ExitUs

    Although the two reports below don’t fit into any regional catagory, they are being posted for any international who is leaving the airport to go home. Many stories have already been documented of the treatment when entering, some have reported the treatment when leaving. These two women are 81 and 71 years old, and they…

  • Nine hours to get home

    by Ash August 20, 2005 UPDATE: Last night, five Palestinians were killed by the Israeil Occupation Forces in Tulkarem On the way home yesterday, I was stopped 6 times at Israeli checkpoints traveling from Ramallah to Tulkarem. These were not pop-up checkpoints this time — a little different this week — but concrete at both…

  • Suffer the Little Children

    by Nils and Lo August, 2005 HEBRON — Since the Oslo agreement, the city of Hebron has been divided into areas ruled by the Palestinian Authority and areas ruled by Israel. Today, there are about 500 Israeli Jews living inside Hebron, with a Palestinian population of close to 200,000. Two to three thousand Israeli soldiers…