Category: Features

  • Over a Thousand Demonstrators Marked Five Years of Struggle in Bil’in by Dismantling the Wall

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 19 February 2010 One week following the victory forcing Israel to begin rerouting the path of the Wall, and under the shadow of an unprecedented wave of repression against the popular struggle, over a thousand protesters took part in a demonstration at the west Bank village of Bil’in, marking five years…

  • Israeli Army Raids Nablus Apartments

    International Solidarity Movement 18 February 2010 Last night at around 2.30am, the Israeli army illegally stormed into 5 apartments in the Ashref Building on Suki Street in Nablus. The city is located in “Area A”, which is under full Palestinian Authority control under the Oslo II Agreement, making this raid illegal under international law. Without…

  • Violent Zionists Tour Sheikh Jarrah

    International Solidarity Movement 14 February 2010 At approximately 1 pm today, roughly 20 Zionist tourists entered the yard of the occupied al-Kurd home in Sheikh Jarrah as part of a settlement promotion tour. Verbally harassing both Palestinian residents and Internationals and attempting to block their cameras,  tourists listened as a guide expounded upon the religious…

  • CNN: West Bank wall still triggers weekly protests in village

    CNN 12 February 2010 Tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and rocks: It must be Friday afternoon in the West Bank village of Bil’in. It’s billed as a nonviolent protest against what Israel calls its security barrier, what the Palestinians call the apartheid separation wall. The barrier separates the villagers from their farmlands. Protesters come…

  • Israel admits detention of international activists illegal

    International Solidarity Movement 8 February 2010 A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement’s Ramallah offices. The two will be released on bail. Earlier today, the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the release on…