Press Releases

The International Solidarity Movement calls on you to: JOIN THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM Freedom Summer Palestine is a campaign designed to highlight to the world the injustice of occupation, the inevitable rightness of freedom and the determination of a people ...

Transcript originally published by CNN Paula Zahn, CNN anchor: As events unfold in the Middle East, Adam Shapiro and his fiance, Huwaida Arraf, are here in America watching. The couple had been working in Israel with the International Solidarity Movement, ...

At 8:00 this morning The I.D.F. declared the Kefar Etzion settlement checkpoint a closed military zone thus preventing 300 international peace activists from entering Hebron. The order the soldiers produced stated that the area was closed from the 29th of ...

[Surda, Palestine] Over one hundred foreign civilians served as an “international protection force” for Palestinians today and deployed at the Surda military checkpoint (on the road from Ramallah to Birzeit University) to allow Palestinians safe passage to and from work ...

[Erez, Gaza] Ninety foreign civilians, from Belgium, England, France, Italy and the United States are being denied entry into Gaza, where they are scheduled to conduct solidarity visits in Gaza City, Rafah and Khan Younis, including refugee camps. As of ...

Candlelight procession from Bethlehem to Jerusalem Tomorrow, Tuesday December 25th – Christmas Day, over 100 foreign civilians, from Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain and the United States will march with Palestinians in the traditional Christmas Day procession from Shepard’s Field ...

Thursday December 20th, dozens of American and British civilians helped Palestinian villagers remove Israeli roadblocks in the northern village of Hares and Yasuf in the Salfit region. The international group was threatened with arrest, yet they continued to work removing ...

[Hares, West Bank] American citizen, Sofia Ahmed, 26, from Chicago, Illinois, was arrested by Israeli police today as a group of 60 American and British human rights campaigners worked to remove two roadblocks near the West Bank city of Nablus. ...

International activists toured the region of Salfit, meeting local families and activists. They discussed problems of the area. The activists will remain in the region until December 23. Tomorrow, Thursday December 20th, dozens of American and British civilians will help ...

Join the struggle for freedom From December 15, 2001 through January 1, 2002, the International Solidarity Movement will be welcoming dozens of international civilians who will be coming to the Occupied Palestinian Territories to show their solidarity with the Palestinian ...