Category: Features

  • Popular Committee leader of Ni’lin arrested and two protesters injured by live ammo in Deir Qaddis

    15 June 2011 | Ni’lin Two Protesters Injured with Live Ammunition and one arrested in Deir Qaddis Demonstrators disrupted construction of a new neighborhood in the adjacent settlement of Nili. Israeli soldiers responded with baton charges, tear-gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition. One organizer was arrested and several olive trees were burned down. Two…

  • A call from Gaza in support of the Freedom Flotilla II

    12 June 2011 | Gaza We the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, five years after closures began on Gaza , are saying enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting – the full siege on the Gaza Strip must end. Shortly after 2006 democratic election which were supervised by people and bodies from…

  • Palestinian teenager injured near Gaza border

    7 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement 19-year-old Mohammed Kafarna was hit in the neck by bullet shrapnel during a weekly non-violent demonstration in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip. According to the doctor treating him, there were three pieces of metal lodged in his neck, thigh and abdomen. Mohammed is in a stable condition, which will…

  • 22 dead and 360 injured in 5th June Naksa protests

    06 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement According to the most recent reports 22 civilians were killed and 360 injured yesterday when Israeli soldiers opened fire at protesters marking Naksa day across the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the Syrian border. The 5th June this year marked the 44th anniversary of the Naksa, or “setback”…

  • Palestinians in Gaza march for return on Naksa Day

    5 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Hundreds of Palestinian refugees rallied outside the Erez Crossing in Beit Hanoun today to demand the right to return to the homes from which they and their families were ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias and Israeli military forces beginning in 1947. They were joined by other Palestinians and…