Author: ISM Media

  • Racist attacks are daily reality in Hebron, even for children

    10th March 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine by Team Khalil Today a group of young settlers assault three Palestinian boys, Sharef (15), Ibrahim (14) and Walid Hamad (12), at the entrance of their home. The Abu Aesheh family lives in a house surrounded by settlements and an army base. In addition to…

  • Non Violent Demonstration in South Hebron ends with violent military response

    10th March 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine By Team Khalil On Friday afternoon near the illegal Beit Hagai settlement, a non violent demonstration over the closing of the vital road between Al Fawar Camp and Al Hareaq (South of Hebron) ended with military violence. Within minutes of the demonstration beginning, the military…

  • Is there Hope of Justice for a Palestinian family in Israel’s Courts?

    Update on the 13th March 2013: The Supreme court will review the case of Ziad Jilani  After hearing an appeal presented on behalf of Moira Jilani, the widow of Ziad and their three daughters the Israeli Supreme Court Judges have decided that they wished to review all evidence in the case.  Ziad Jilani was killed by…

  • Funeral of 23 year old Mohammed Asfour leads to Israeli army invasion of village

    9th March 2013| Lisa Marchant, Occupied Palestine 23 year old Mohammed Asfour died on the 7th of March, from injuries sustained during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strikers in Israeli jails. He was shot in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet at the demonstration on the 22nd of February and…

  • Sebastiya protests against sewage dumping

    9th March 2013| Popular Struggle Coordination Committee On Friday, the village of Sebastiya held its first demonstration in order to protest the flooding of its land by the sewage coming from the nearby Jewish-only settlement of Save Shomron. Around 150 people from Sebastiya, together with Israeli and international activists, participated in the demonstration which was…