FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: British student injured by Israeli soldiers illegally firing tear gas canisters directly at protesters An Nabi Saleh, West Bank 31 July 2010 A British student was injured yesterday (30 July 2010) when she was hit in the ...
Read More »Israel bombs central Gaza City: seventeen injured
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Israel bombs central Gaza City; seventeen injured Gaza City, Gaza Strip 31 July 2010 At around 11:30pm last night (Friday 30 July 2010), ‘The Arafat Compound’ Police College in central Gaza City was bombed by Israeli F-16s, ...
Read More »Swedish peace activist arrested, witnesses say charge of assault is ‘baseless’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 21 July 2010 Correction, 27 July 2010: Marcus’s surname was originally wrongly spelled ‘Rednanver’ but has now been corrected. A Swedish peace activist was arrested in Hebron last night and stood trial today in Jerusalem. Nursing student ...
Read More »Early release of Tom Hurndall’s killer symptom of wider Israeli crimes
20 July 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Correction appended The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) condemns the early release from prison of the Israeli soldier that murdered photography student and ISM volunteer Tom Hurndall in Gaza in 2003. The Israeli press yesterday ...
Read More »Exporting the intifada: ISM activists Ryan Olander & Bridget Chappell vs. Europe
International Solidarity Movement activists Bridget Chappell and Ryan Olander are raging through Europe! Speaking in cities across Europe about their experiences and observations from their time working with the ISM on the ground in occupied Palestine, their mission is to ...
Read More »CPT: Israeli Police Invade Palestinian Home, Arrest Father in Hebron’s Old City
Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron July 14, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On July 13, 2pm about 20 Israeli police and soldiers invaded the Awewi family home in Hebron’s Old City. They forced the mother and the eight children into the ...
Read More »US to Gaza announces plan to join the next Freedom Flotilla
U.S. Boat to Gaza FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2010 This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has mounted ...
Read More »Israeli courts criminalize protest: Adeeb Abu Rahma sentenced to two years
International network for the Palestinian popular nonviolent resistance Israeli repression of Palestinian non-violent resistance against the Wall and the Occupation takes a distubring turn: Adeeb Abu Rahma, from Bil’in Village, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. On 30 June 2010, grassroots ...
Read More »Wheat harvest met with live ammunition in Gaza “buffer zone”
International Solidarity Movement 13 June 2010 Israeli forces attacked women farmworkers and international human rights activists with heavy gunfire during three days’ wheat harvest in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israel-imposed “buffer zone” illegally claims over 30% of Gaza’s arable ...
Read More »Action Alert: Israeli forces sieze MV Rachel Corrie
Just before 9am GMT this morning, the Israeli military forcibly seized the Irish-owned humanitarian relief ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, from delivering over 1000 tons of medical and construction supplies to besieged Gaza. For the second time in less then ...
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