Category: Press Releases

  • Palestinians and Internationals Attacked in Falamia

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Falami, Qalqilia District] This morning at 8:00 am Palestinian Falami farmers along with a group of approximately 20 International civilians were attacked by hired Israeli Security Personnel as they tried to peacefully protest the destruction of the Palestinian agricultural land. Israeli government contractors along with Israeli private security overlooked by the Israeli…

  • FREEDOM SUMMER 2002 CAMPAIGN AGAINST OCCUPATION

    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 to achieve freedom. All people of the world are called upon to come to the…

  • CNN: Interview with Adam Shapiro, Huwaida Arraf

    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, a pro-Palestinian group advocating the non-violent end to Israeli occupation. You might remember that Shapiro,…

  • International Peace Activists Barred from Entering Hebron

    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 Dec until the 9th of January. The delegation waited in the area for three hours…

  • Over 100 Internationals Deploy to Allow Palestinians Safe Passage

    [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 and school. The Israeli military checkpoint set up at Surda is illegal according to UN…