Author: ISM Media
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75 year old woman shot in Johr al-Dik
16 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip Selma Al Sawarka, or Um Ahmad, is an active woman, a mother of seven, and a grandmother of 35, who has never quit working. August 10, 2011 dawned like most days do for her; she went out to graze her family’s goats. She took her neighbor…
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“Price tag” campaign a pattern more than a phenomenon
15 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The so called “price tag” campaign is regarded to be a product of the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar, yet the price tag to Israeli occupation and fanatical land grabbing is much more a general concept, aligned with the policy and practice of Israel let alone…
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Illegal settlement, Qadumim, upheld over Kufr Qaddoum’s rights
13 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday the 12th of August, the weekly demonstration called by the local Popular Committee in Kufr Qaddum was held. Despite the blazing heat and that most of the participants are fasting for Ramadan, an impressive contingent of around two hundred began the march towards the…
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Israeli military forces attack the freedom of theatre
13 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp has faced targeted repression by the Israeli Army in recent weeks. At 3pm on August 6th, 2011, Israeli Occupation Forces arrested a Freedom Theatre actor at the Shave Shomeron checkpoint on his way from Ramallah to Jenin. Rami Awni…
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They try to steal our history, not just our land
9 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The demonstrations in Nabi Saleh started the 21 of November 2009, after the illegal settlement of Halamish expanded, costing locals in land and their source of water for home and agricultural use, a spring declared holy by the settlers. Since the beginning of the demonstrations the village faced outstanding…