Category: In the Media

  • Israeli soldiers open fire on Hebron demonstrators, injuring 17

    Ma’an News Agency Hebron – Ma’an – Seventeen Palestinians were injured when Israeli soldiers opened fire on Palestinian demonstrators in Israeli-occupied Hebron on Friday. Confrontations between Israeli troops and stone-throwing Palestinian youths took place on Tareq-Ibin Ziad Street, which is in a section of Hebron under the full control of the Israeli military. Medical sources…

  • Interview with Adam Shapiro, co-founder of the ISM

    Kourosh Ziabari | Palestine Think Tank Adam Shapiro, the symbol of a courageous, pure peace advocate, has long been under fire for his unconditional and categorical criticism of Israeli occupying state. Born in 1972, the perseverant and steadfast anti-Zionist campaigner and co-founder of International Solidarity Movement vigorously makes efforts to broadcast the voice of subjugated…

  • Peace Now: Settlements expanded faster in 2008

    On day US Mideast envoy arrives in Israel, Peace Now movement publishes report on settlement expansion activity last year. Yesha Council pleased with ‘documentation of Zionist enterprise’ Efrat Weiss | Ynet Jewish settlements and outposts in the West Bank expanded more rapidly in 2008 than the previous year, Peace now reported on Wednesday. The timing…

  • Electronic Intifada: Sharpeville 1960, Gaza 2009

    Dr. Haidar Eid | Electronic Intifada 22 January 2009, Gaza “Where can I bring him a father from? Where can I bring him a mother from? You tell me!” These are the desperate words of Subhi Samouni to Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent. Subhi lost 17 members of his immediate family, including the parents of his…

  • Gaza film shows white phosphorus from alleged Israeli attack

    Two more videos shot by the International Solidarity Movement taken by The Guardian as proof of use of banned weapons by Israeli forces in Gaza. Robert Booth | The Guardian Ayman al Najar, 13, tells how he lost his sister, grandfather and cousin in a bomb attack The Guardian has obtained vivid footage of the…