Category: Press Releases

  • Palestinian children to play Katyusha at Huwwara checkpoint

    UPDATE Tuesday 7pm This action has been postponed due to the current situation in Nablus. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In the second action of the ‘Thirty Days against Checkpoints Campaign’ a youth band will perform the popular Russian folk song ‘Katyusha’ at Huwwara checkpoint on Wednesday 24th January at 12 noon. ‘Katyusha’, a popular Soviet Second…

  • Abir Memorial Ceremony in Anata

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tomorrow, Sunday January 20th, students of all 3 schools in Anata will hold a memorial ceremony for 10-year old Abir Aramin. According to eyewitness accounts, Abir was shot by a border police officer on Tuesday morning outside her school. Abir was declared brain dead and put on a life support machine until…

  • Ten-year old girl brain dead after border police shooting

    by the ISM media team, January 18th Abir’s sister, Arin, and a schoolfriend who were walking with Abir when she was shot in the head two days ago Abir Aramin, ten years old, who was wounded by an Israeli border policeman Tuesday the 16th, was announced brain dead this morning at the Haddasa Ein Karem…

  • Prayer against Wall in Bethlehem village

    by the ISM media team, January 17th AP photo from Monday 15th This Friday at 11, villagers in the South Bethlehem region will gather on the land of Umm Salamuna village to pray. After prayers they will tend to their olive trees and grape vines which are threatened with destruction for the Apartheid Wall and…

  • Freedom Ride Against Apartheid Travel Ban

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Next Friday, January 19th Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists will form a caravan of cars against the Apartheid decree prohibiting Israelis and foreigner nationals from driving Palestinians inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Inspired by the freedom rides of the early 1960s which helped end Segregation in the American South, Israelis and Internationals…