Author: ISM Media Group

  • The Gaza Disengagement Plan’s Impact on the West Bank

    by the Palestine Center staff It is difficult to imagine a situation more terrifying and bleak. Isolated and without any means to determine their own destiny, Palestinians will soon be forced to live their lives as prisoners in a cell. The jail keeper: Israel. Read the rest at The Council for National Interest site

  • Settlers hold Palestinians hostage as Northern West Bank pullout deadline looms

    Hundreds of pro-settlement Israelis have flocked to the area around Jenin to protest the dismantling of four small settlements scheduled to be part of Israel’s disengagement plan for the northern part of the West Bank. Not exactly what you’d call a peaceful demonstration. The group, numbering in the hundreds are flocking to settlements that have…

  • Azzoun burns

    Villagers set fire to some of their own olive trees to send a message to settlers that even if they get the land, they won’t get the agriculture that Palestinian families have spent generations cultivating. By Sarita Friday, August 12 Over 500 villagers from Azzoun demonstrated Friday, August 12, to protest the second stage of…

  • Soldier joins Bil’in protest

    A wall moves through Bil’in A woman who showed up in her military uniform along with protesters in Bil’in was quickly arrested by soldiers and transferred to IDF investigators for questioning. About 100 or so peace activsits carried their own version of Israeli’s annexation wall that is being built through villages like Bil’in. Soldiers detained…

  • Bil’in, a test field for new Israeli weapons

    Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies Tuesday, 09 August 2005 Israeli and international leftist peace activists accused the Israeli army of using demonstrations against the Separation Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in as a “test field” for its new weapons for dispersing protests. The Israeli military industries have lately been testing new “non-lethal weapons,”…