19 August 2012 | Besieged Gaza, occupied Palestine We call on the European Union to challenge and not embrace Israel’s incessant land expropriation and racist subjugation against the Palestinian people. The European Union’s own reports document and supposedly lament Israel’s ...
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Israeli military beats and arrests journalists, suppresses Kufr Qaddoum demonstration
By Marshall Pinkerton and Alma Reventos 18 August | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday, August 17, 5 were injured and 8 arrested during the weekly protest in Kufr Qaddoum. Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas canisters, rubber-coated steel bullets, and beat ...
Read More »Occupied Palestine: farce, tragedy, travesty
By Patrick Keddie 20 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The three snapshots below are composed from interviews conducted whilst working for the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank from September to December 2011. FARCE Rodni Jaber ...
Read More »Settler Attack: Palestinian man shot in head in Asira al-Qibliya
By Maria Erdely 20 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Asira al-Qibliya, a village located south-west of Nablus, was attacked by illegal Israeli settlers yesterday. The attack lasted all afternoon leaving 7 Palestinians injured, of which 5 required ...
Read More »Gaza: Harvesting barley at Erez crossing amidst gun fire
By Hama Waqum 19 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Ten Palestinian volunteers harvested wheat in Gaza’s northern no-go zone on Wednesday, May 16, only 350 meters from where the Israeli Apartheid wall encircles the Gaza Strip. Two weeks ...
Read More »Campaign: Killing Without Consequence
May 19, 2012 | Killing Without Consequence Killing Without Consequence is a campaign to press criminal charges against Israeli Border policeman Maxim Vinagrodov who executed Palestinian Ziad Jilani on June 11, 2010. In January 2011, the case against Vinagrodov was ...
Read More »Nakba Day: Palestinian group attempts to return to 1948 territories, one arrested
By Ling Lewis 19 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A Palestinian man was arrested at Ni’lin checkpoint on Tuesday, April 15 during a Nakba Day demonstration. The procession successfully crossed the checkpoint which separates the West Bank ...
Read More »Nakba anniversary message
by Mazin Qumsiyeh 15 May 2012 | Popular Resistance On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we ...
Read More »What Thaer Halahleh’s family told me about his release brings joy, but raises troubling questions
by Lina Al Saafin 15 May 2012 | Electronic Intifada At around 1:30am Palestine local time I was lying on my side in my bed trying to sleep and doing my best to ignore the queasy feeling in the pit ...
Read More »Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike
by Haitham Hamad 14 May 2012 | Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed Monday to end a weekslong hunger strike after winning concessions from Israel to improve their conditions, the two sides announced. The ...
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