Category: Press Releases

  • Farmers, int’ls, to access farmland in settlement danger zone

    Internationals needed to accompany farmers to their land near Karmei Tzur settlement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 June 2007 This June marks the 40th year since the Occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights. On Sunday, June 3, Palestinians from Beit Ummar will attempt to reach their farmland near the illegal Israeli settlement…

  • June 5th Initiative’s 3-Day Conference

    Forty Years after 1967: Reappraising the Role and Limits of the Legal Discourse on Occupation in the Israeli-Palestinian Context from June 5th Initiative June 5-7 3 day conference Location: Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv University Details: The Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv University – The International Committee of the…

  • Kibush40: Six Days of Demonstrations and Events

    Surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Occupation from Kibush 40 June 5, 2007 , will be the fortieth anniversary of the malignant Israeli occupation of the West Bank , Gaza Strip and Golan Heights . The present suffering and bloodshed at Gaza and Sderot are a direct outcome of the policy of occupation, settlement and…

  • Israeli police confiscates Palestinian video evidence

    Video shows Israeli settler throwing tomatoes and eggs at harvesters by ISM Hebron, 31 May 2007 At approximately 10:00, four international Human Rights Workers (HRW), four Palestinian HRWs, five journalists and cameramen, and the Al-Jabari family gathered at the Al-Jabari home in Hebron just outside the Israeli colony of Kiriat Arba in order to accompany…

  • (VIDEO) 4 Injured at Bil’in Demonstration

    Greek-Chilean shot in head and leg with rubber-coated steel bullets by the ISM Media Crew Video filmed by Emad Bornat For 28 months, Palestinians from the West Bank village of Bil’in have been joined by Israeli and international solidarity activists to non-violently protest the confiscation of Palestinian land and Israel’s Apartheid Wall. Iyad, head of…