09 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At one in the afternoon on Monday, the 8th of October, we received a call in Arabic: “We have big problems. Can you come?” Two calls later and we were on ...
Read More »Letter from International Activist Under House Arrest in Israel Asking for Support and Solidarity
September 25, 2012 Dear Friends of Palestine, I am writing to you from an apartment in Tel Aviv where I am under house arrest for standing in solidarity with Palestinians fighting a twelve-year road closure in their West Bank town ...
Read More »A day of violence and intimidation in Hebron
By Anna Conroy September 12, 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the morning of September 10 in south west Hebron, at Checkpoint 56, a Palestinian man was shot with live ammunition by the Israeli military. Residents and army ...
Read More »Ni’ilin struggles on
By Anna September 12, 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday 7th September myself and four other international activists attended the weekly demonstration against the apartheid wall in the village of Ni’lin. Since 2004 the villagers of Ni’lin ...
Read More »I can’t sleep
By Abu Sarah 31 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “I can’t sleep. As soon as I close my eyes, I see settlers everywhere.”, says Amer the six years old son of my friend. Omar leaves his mattress and ...
Read More »Apartheid Safari
By Markus Fitzgerald 21 July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Saturday evening, around 6pm, a group of illegal Israeli settlers move through the Old City of Palestinian Al Khalil (Hebron). They are both surrounded and fortified by Israeli ...
Read More »Tel Rumeida: Child settler violence through the lenses of an international activist
by Sunny 5 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A group of approximately 10 to 15 soldiers displayed their ineptitude in dealing with a group of rowdy settler children, roughly between the ages of 8 to 14, who ...
Read More »Wheat farmers under fire in Gaza: We must continue to work our land
by Nathan Stuckey 23 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Today we went farming with the family of Ahmed Saadat. We arrived in Khuzaa at about 7 AM and met Ahmed. He told us that the Israeli’s had already ...
Read More »Gaza: The march for prisoners within a prison
by Nathan Stuckey 18 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza April 17th is Palestinain Prisoners Day. All over Palestine demonstrations were held in solidarity with the approximately 5,000 prisoners still held in the occupations jails. Bait Hanoun was no ...
Read More »Beit Hanoun remembers Vittorio: “When he spoke you had to listen”
by Nathan Stuckey 11 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza One year ago Vittorio Arrigoni was murdered. Since coming to Gaza, Vik, as everyone knew him, had been a regular at Beit Hanoun’s weekly demonstrations against the no go ...
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