Category: Features

  • Israeli Forces Critically Injure Boy in An Nabi Saleh

    International Solidarity Movement 5 March 2010 Demonstrators in An Nabi Salih were met with tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and sound bombs. The IOF also fired skunk, a putrid-smelling chemical spray. One international was hit with a metal tear gas canister in the arm. Four Palestinians were injured, including a young man Ehab Fadel Beir…

  • International call to action in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah

    Just Jerusalem 1 March 2010 WHAT: A global call to action in solidarity with the residents of Sheikh Jarrah WHERE: Around the globe and into the streets WHEN: 6 March 2010 WHY: Sheikh Jarrah is a unique community in occupied East Jerusalem. The plight of this community is emblematic of the larger Palestinian struggle for…

  • Cultivating Resistance: Khirbet Bir al ‘Idd

    International Solidarity Movement 27 February 2010 Last week, two small, rural outposts were awaiting two payloads from a 4×4 that was snaking its way along the winding, West Bank roads of the South Hebron hills. The first was the material to construct some alternative energy sources for these small communities, the second was an international…

  • Guardian: Rachel Corrie’s family bring civil suit over death in Gaza

    Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 23 February 2010 The family of the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago, is to bring a civil suit over her death against the Israeli defence ministry. The case, which begins on 10 March in Haifa, northern Israel, is…

  • Letter from prison: Abdallah Abu Rahmah

    21 February 2010 Dear Friends and Supporters, It has been two months now since I was handcuffed, blindfolded and taken from my home. Today news has reached Ofer Military Prison that the apartheid wall on Bil’in’s land will finally be moved and construction has begun on the new route. This will return half of the…