Author: ISM Media Group

  • Hamas forms new security branch

    By Laila el-Haddad Something strange is happening in Gaza. Municipality workers are actually working. The streets seem a bit cleaner. And for once, I actually saw a policeman arresting a criminal in a dramatic pick-up the other day, much to the chagrin of his gang, who stoned and shot at the police car (futilely), and…

  • Corporate Complicity in the Ethnic Cleansing of the Jordan Valley

    I was convinced by a friend to take a trip to the Jordan Valley this week. This is my fourth trip to Palestine but I have never visited the region and have heard relatively little about it. This is symptomatic of the condition of the valley, it is largely forgotten by the international community and…

  • Settlers Attack

    Settler graffiti on the Palestinan Qutarba girls school. Credit: Ann Detwiler. 22 April- A gang of 30 militant Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian grocery shop today, and assaulted the owner’s son and several others. The settlers flung sharpened metal bars as “spears” through the open doorway smashing produce jars and knocking goods from the shelves.…