Category: Press Releases
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International Solidarity Movement activist seriously injured in Jenin
Palestine Red Crescent Society Press Release http://www.palestinercs.org/pressreleases/PR050403WBRR.htm Jenin – (5 April 2003): At approximately 7:23 pm, PRCS Emergency Medical Services (EMS) received a call to respond to an injured person near the town’s main square. Within several minutes a PRCS ambulance was on the scene, and the medics immediately administered emergency first aid to the…
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Israeli soldiers attack children in Bethlehem
by Kristin Ess Over 1000 children, aged roughly between 8 and 12 years old, gathered today in Manger Square in front of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity to demonstrate in support of the Iraqi people. The kids were holding hand-made signs and banners. Manger Square is not near an Israeli imposed checkpoint, nor is it…
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ISM statement on the killing of Rachel Corrie
OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND Our friend and fellow activist for peace, Rachel Corrie, was murdered on Sunday March 16, when she was purposely run over by an Israeli-driven, US-made (Caterpillar D9) bulldozer, while trying to prevent a Palestinian civilian home from being demolished by the Israeli military in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip. Rachel…
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The closest eye witness account on the murder of Rachel Corrie
by Tom Dale March 17, 2003 Many of you will of heard varying accounts of the death of Rachel Corrie, maybe others will have heard nothing of it. Regardless, I was 10 metres away when it happened 2 days ago, and this is the way it went. We’d been monitoring and occasionally obstructing the 2…
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Captain, Please Use The Door!
by Robin All around the Old City of Nablus, the operations are taking place. Large groups of heavily armed soldiers with their involuntary human shields, dart around corners and down alleys. The phone rings continuously with yet more reports of occupied houses and detained medical volunteers. Someone of one of the families who live in…