Author: ISM Media
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Al Aqaba village wakes up to demolitions
15 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Israeli military invaded al Aqaba village east of Tubas at 6am this morning and demolished a home and main road. The operation consisted of two bulldozers and ten military vehicles. The Israeli army set up a closed military zone stopping all access to the village.…
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Protests in Northern Gaza
15 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Palmer Report, recently released by the United Nations, was a moral travesty. It asserted that the naval blockade of Gaza was somehow separate from the land siege of Gaza. The Palmer Report was an attempt to break up the oppression of Gaza into bite size morsels…
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Fathers speak on the mass arrests in Hebron
15 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Sunday the 21st of August the Israeli army carried out arrests in al Khalil (Hebron) on a scale not seen since 2003. Around 120-200 people were kidnapped from their homes in pre-dawn raids and following the release of some, the final number in Israeli custody…
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Sheikh Jarrah in need of more international presence
13 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In the early hours of September 12th, local illegal settlers in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, torched and destroyed a protest tent frequented and inhabited by locals and international volunteers and observers in the midst of increased Israeli settler violence and aggression. The tent sat between an…
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Broken wrists and arrests by Israeli military as farmers cultivate Beit Ummar
10 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Supporting Palestinian farmers in Beit Ummar, international activists joined the weekly Saturday activities–clearing the land for cultivation despite the harrassment of Israeli military and illegal settlers, which resulted in the injury of a Palestinian man and the arrest of a British national, Jude Wells. At 9…