by Sarah 17 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Sunday, the 16th of January, at approximately 2 AM, about fifty settlers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, entered the Abu Haikal family’s field in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeideh ...
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Kufr Qaddoum: Not peanuts in the colonists’ jar
by Amal 16 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The cold and rain did not keep the residents of Kufr Qaddoum from protesting this past Friday. Even the hail storm did not stop them from demanding their equal ...
Read More »What happened on the 10th of January in Jericho
14 January 2012 | Mahmoud Zwahre, Al Ma’sara Village I would like to thank all of you who stand with us, who have showed amazing support these past three days and demanded our immediate release from Israeli military jail. I ...
Read More »We Remember: Tom Hurndall
13 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement Tom was 21 years old when he was shot. A photography student, he had left the UK to volunteer as a ‘human shield’ in Iraq. Here he heard about the ISM, one of ...
Read More »Palestine doesn’t ask for aid, but for freedom and recognition
by Emma 13 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank I always knew I would go to Palestine one day. It wasn’t until I met my four friends from Gaza, Motasem, Mohammed, Hussein and Mo’min, during my time as an exchange ...
Read More »Call for urgent financial support for youth center in Burin near Nablus
by Lydia 12 January 2012 | Burin: Land of Love and Resistance As some of you may know, I have spent the past half-year in and close to the village of Burin in the Nablus area. Those who have visited ...
Read More »Bedouin village of Umm Al Kheer under demolition threat, South Hebron Hills
10 January 2012 | Operation Dove On January 8th, the DCO delivered stop working orders to 8 infrastructures in the Palestinian village of Umm Al Kheer. In the morning the Israeli Civil Administration, escorted by an Israeli army jeep, entered ...
Read More »ISM volunteers encounter settler attack and sexual harassment in Hebron
by Emma and Meriam 10 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Around midnight on January 10th two international, female activists were attacked by a middle aged settler woman living in the occupied area of Hebron. After entering Shuhada ...
Read More »Military court approves illegal interrogation of a minor
10 January 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Major Sharon Rivlin, a judge at the Ofer Military Court, accepted as admissible the testimony of a 14 year-old Palestinian boy who was unlawfully arrested in the dead of night, questioned without ...
Read More »Kufr ad-Dik resists by the hundreds
by Jonathon 7 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The residents of Kufr ad-Dik sent a clear and strong message of resistance to the Israeli authorities, just the second of planned weekly demonstrations in the village thus far. ...
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