Category: Press Releases

  • They still find ways to have fun

    by Devon Sixty percent of the West Bank village of Kifl Haris are children under the age of 17.  on August first some of the village’s children demonstrated with us and stayed non-violent in the face of a foreign military shooting teargas and sound bombs.  I would not have been that brave when I was…

  • CHILD, FOUR ADULTS INJURED, AUSTRIAN ACTIVIST ARRESTED

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A nonviolent demonstration meant to take place at the entrance to the West Bank village of Kafr Haris against the destruction of Palestinian olive groves for the construction of an Israeli-only bypass road was attacked in route by Israeli soldiers. Four adults and one child were injured by tear gas canisters that…

  • Update on Shora Esamilan

    Shora Esamilan, ISM activist from Sweden, has arrived back in her country after being deported from Israel. She was forced onto a plane by five policemen, including two brought in specially from Austria. On her way onto the plane, the police beat her with batons. Shora was brutally interrogated by the Israeli general security services…