Author: ISM Media

  • The mourning tent of a martyr

    The mourning tent of a martyr

    by Nathan Stuckey 14 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip Nayif Qarmout was murdered yesterday; he was also buried yesterday, in a small cemetery in the heart of Jabalia, the refugee camp where he lived.  He was only 14 years old.  He was murdered by an Israeli missile while playing football with his…

  • Beit Furik, Nablus: Family unable to attend funeral for son killed in recent Gaza air strikes

    Beit Furik, Nablus: Family unable to attend funeral for son killed in recent Gaza air strikes

    by Jonas Weber 13 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “We called him Nassr, but I think his real name was Mahmoud,” says Ahmed while we were on the bus from the Beit Furik municipality building. Outside the bus window, the walls of the little town just outside of Nablus are plastered with…

  • Mapping a pattern of Israeli violence in Burin

    Mapping a pattern of Israeli violence in Burin

    13 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The pattern of settler and military invasion of Burin, a village near Nablus, is what locals and internationals are mapping to brace themselves for more property damage, violence, and threats by nearby illegal settlements and hardcore adherents to the volatile “Price Tag Campaign.” If the pattern…