by Radhika Sainath 9 December 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade Update: Midgdad’s 12-year-old cousin died yesterday. “This is the occupation,” a neighbor mumbled as we stepped into what remained of twenty-year-old Migdad El Zalaan’s cement-block home in the north ...
Read More »Tristan Anderson civil suit delayed as new evidence emerges
by Charlotte Silver 3 Demember 2011 | The Electronic Intifada “If he had been a Palestinian, he would have gone to the Ramallah hospital and died,” Gabby Silverman said firmly. Silverman was close enough to Tristan Anderson that she didn’t even ...
Read More »Al Baqa’a: The struggle of a family in the shadow of illegal annexation
by Alistair George 17 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “The Israelis hope that that the young people leave, the old people die, and then they can confiscate the land and the houses” says Sami, an activist working ...
Read More »Proceedings in US national’s civil suit over West Bank injury to begin
13 November 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee UPDATE: The opening court date has been postponed from 17 November to 24 November 2011. Tristan Anderson, a US National, suffered a life-threatening injury after being shot in the head with a high velocity tear-gas projectile during an anti-Wall demonstration on March 13th, 2009. On 13 March 2009, Israeli Border Police officers shot US activist from California, Tristan Anderson, in the head with a high velocity ...
Read More »Israeli military profiling and assaulting international observers in Hebron
5 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank For over a week now, ISM activists have been continually harassed, and on one occasion assaulted, by Israeli soldiers who have frequently demanded that internationals to hand over possessions of their ...
Read More »In Photos: Palestinians gather support for #FreedomWaves and ending blockade of Gaza
by Alistair George and Ben Lorber Canadian and Irish ships sailing with Freedom Waves to Gaza were illegally boarded by the Israeli military in international waters yesterday afternoon. The Israeli military stated that “Upon arrival of the vessels at the ...
Read More »#FreedomWaves launches to bring Gaza humanitarian aid
by Ben Lorber 2 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Wednesday, November 2, two international ships left the Turkish harbor to carry humanitarian aid through the Israeli blockade of Gaza. The event, called ‘Freedom Waves for Gaza’, ...
Read More »Israel drops missile on North Gaza neighborhood, no one cares
Radhika Sainath | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Israeli Air Force fired a missile into a Beit Hanoun residential neighborhood in north Gaza early Sunday morning. The missile landed in a grove surrounded by homes, creating a crater the size of ...
Read More »The Olive and the F-16: Autumn in Gaza
by Radhika S. 27 October 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade Today completes another week of olive picking in Gaza. Another week of pausing, breaths held, as Israeli tanks the color of sand moved nearby along the buffer zone, ...
Read More »Fishing in Gaza – no day at the beach
24 October 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade I saw an Israeli naval warship for the first time yesterday, a concrete monster the color of ash, guzzling up the Mediterranean and spurting it out in its wake. I rose ...
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