Category: Journals

  • 75 year old woman shot in Johr al-Dik

    16 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip Selma Al Sawarka, or Um Ahmad, is an active woman, a mother of seven, and a grandmother of 35, who has never quit working.  August 10, 2011 dawned like most days do for her; she went out to graze her family’s goats.  She took her neighbor…

  • “Price tag” campaign a pattern more than a phenomenon

    15 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The so called “price tag” campaign is regarded to be a product of the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar, yet the price tag to Israeli occupation and fanatical land grabbing is much more a general concept, aligned with the policy and practice of Israel let alone…

  • They try to steal our history, not just our land

    9 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The demonstrations in Nabi Saleh started the 21 of November 2009, after the illegal settlement of Halamish expanded, costing locals in land and their source of water for home and agricultural use, a spring declared holy by the settlers. Since the beginning of the demonstrations the village faced outstanding…