Author: ISM Media Group

  • Israel refuses visa extensions for foreign passport holders

    Right to Entry, December 5th In a new escalation of Israel’s policy of denying Palestinians and their families access to the Israeli occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), the Israeli Civil Administration at Beit El is refusing to accept at least 140 passports for visa extensions. The passport holders are mostly spouses and children of Palestinian I.D.-holders…

  • Witness to checkpoint abuse “punished” by IOF

    by aspiringnomad December 5th On Saturday at 4pm a human rights worker based in Nablus received a call from some fellow HRWs at Huwwara checkpoint, that hundreds of Palestinians including a mother with a sick child weren’t being allowed through after the checkpoint had been closed. When the HRW arrived there were hundreds of people…

  • When Human Rights Watch Equates Aggressor with the Aggrieved

    from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Three Palestinian human rights organizations (PCHR, Al-Mezan, and Addameer) sent the below letter to Ms. Sarah Leah Whitson (Middle East Director of Human Rights Watch) in response to the Human Rights Watch position against Palestinian civilians exercising their right of peaceful, unarmed resistance against the illegal demolition of…