Category: Ramallah
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Second mosque burnt in the West Bank this month
12th November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Mughayir, Occupied Palestine At 18:00 yesterday, the Israeli army closed the main entrance to Mughayir village until midnight. At midnight the army infiltrated the village and patrolled its empty streets for the next four hours. Sometime between 2:30-3:30 am, villagers noticed that the mosque was on fire. Failing to…
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Palestinian activists destroy section of Apartheid wall
9th November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Beit Hanina, Occupied Palestine Yesterday, to mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall today, a direct action took place in Beit Hanina, a neighbourhood in Jerusalem. ISM and international volunteers supported the Palestinian-led action, which involved demolishing a section of the Apartheid wall using…
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ISM activist shot in the head with rubber-coated steel bullet
2nd November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine Today during a protest at Qalandia checkpoint, an Italian ISM volunteer was shot in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet. The injury is just two centimetres above her left eye. Giulia, the ISMer, stated, “I was just standing on the side of a street, and…