Category: Journals

  • “Are you Fateh or Hamas?’ – “I am neither”

    by the ISM media team, December 23rd Last night Israeli forces invaded Ramallah Old City around midnight, occupied a family home, blindfolded the twenty-year old son, banged his head against a door and refused to allow the grandmother suffering from diabetes to use the bathroom. Several jeeps, a hummer and an APC invaded Hizbe Al…

  • Israel has the right to defend herself

    by John, December 18th “Israel is a democracy and a friend and has every right to defend itself from terror.” George Bush, May 2004 I had a tour of Hebron today going a bit further than the Tel Rumeida settlement. But we did pass through this area – it turns out that the soldiers often…

  • Testimony from Detained Human Rights Defender

    by Mary, December 18th There have been four occasions in the last two and a half months when the Israeli army and police have helped and encouraged Israeli settlers to trespass on Palestinian land. This is against Israeli law. The aim is probably to help Israeli settlers establish a bridgehead on Palestinian land so that…

  • Checkpoint Humiliation

    The other day as we were travelling through Zatara checkpoint between Ramallah and Nablus, I witnessed a particularly disgusting display of power by the Israeli army. An extremely public humiliation of a woman, who was taken out of a shared taxi and had her ID and phone removed. She was fighting back the tears, trying…

  • “Welcome to Israel” – a trip down the Jordan Valley

    by John, December 14th Today we had a trip down the Jordan valley which didn’t start too auspiciously for our Palestinian contact – he had just been delayed for two hours at a checkpoint. A soldier on the way through a checkpoint had drawn a star of david in the dust of the car. When…