Author: ISM Media
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Beit Ummar steadfast in supporting prisoners despite LRAD and teargas
7 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the tenth day of the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, a crowd of around a hundred people took to the streets for a planned demonstration in the village of Beit Ummar, Hebron. This was one of a number of recent demonstrations across…
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Beit Kahlil: Tear gas flies as Israel demolishes home
6 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At 5:00 AM on the morning of the 6th October, approximately 30 armed soldiers came to demolish a house in Beit Kahil. The IOF woke up the family living in the neighbouring house and informed them about the demolition and declared the entire area a closed…
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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…
