Author: ISM Media
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Israel: Charging house demolition victims to pay costs of demolition equipment
by Samira | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The people in the Bedouin community, Mihtawish, in Khan el Ahmar area outside Jerusalem today faced a house demolition. Three family houses were demolished, which hosted in total 39 people. 30 of them are children. One family lived in their house year round and two were soon…
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Israeli prison industrial complex in motion
by Lisa 30 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement West Bank During a settler tour around the old city in Hebron on Saturday, where dozens of Israelis were guided around in a sort of parade, a Palestinian man named Yousef Salim Issa Al Batch, passed by and was stopped by Israeli police. He had a…
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Beit Ummar: Settlers throw stones from behind military tear gas
by Anders and Aurelie 30 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, 2011 What started as a peaceful demonstration soon erupted into violence when soldiers and settlers from Karmei Tzur settlement attacked a demonstration in Beit Ummar today. The demonstration of around 30 Palestinians and internationals started from the outskirts of the village and continued through a…
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Israeli soldiers “are the law:” The detainment of children
by Emma and Becka 29 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Thursday October 29, in Huwarra, around 3:00PM, soldiers detained busses and services for no apparent reasons. The busses that were stopped were filled with children going home from school. The passengers passports were taken from them, without any explanation, and held for…
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“With children visible” Israeli military assaults Kufr Qaddoum
by Rana H. 28 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Soldiers fired teargas directly into crowd at peaceful protesters in Kufr Qaddoum. Internationals and Palestinians, including children, were gathered behind barbed wire that runs across their main road, and were not advancing when soldiers began to fire around ten canisters of tear gas…
