Author: ISM Media
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Students march to Ofer Prison in solidarity with hunger strike
by Alistair George 5 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Over 100 students from Bir Zeit University marched to the gates of Ofer Prison, near Ramallah today, to demonstrate solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. Prisoners in several Israeli jails began hunger strikes on 27 September 2011 to to protest…
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Demolitions: Israel annexing more land in Kufr ad-Dik and Salfit
4 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Tuesday around 11am the Israeli army carried out demolitions in the West Bank towns of Beit Ula and Kufr ad-Dik, destroying homes, animal pens, wells and hundreds of trees. Yousef Muhammed Turshan sat amongst the rubble that used to be the home for him, his…
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Gaza: Planting in something dead
5 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Around Gaza is a 300 meter “buffer zone,” a no go zone, a land of death. Gaza is not just a prison, it is a shrinking prison. Every time that Israel expands this zone, Gaza gets a little smaller. Every Tuesday, the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative and…
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Hebron in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike for rights
3 October 2011| International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the sixth day of the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, major political factions joined in Hebron and united in support for human rights for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, victims of Israeli collective punishment tactics. On Tuesday the 27th of September, an open-ended…