by ISM Media Office volunteers At today’s weekly demo against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in soldiers attacked protesters with batons and fired rubber bullets at them from close range. Around 100 protesters including international and Israeli peace activists marching from ...
Read More »Twelve Year Old Boy Shot in the Back in the Name of “Security”
by ISM Nablus The Israeli military blocked the road to three villages south-east of Nablus city for nine hours on Thursday. Iraq Burin – a breathtakingly beautiful village of 1,000 people situated on top of a cliff from where, on ...
Read More »Full Account of Israeli Army House Invasions in Hebron
The following is a more detailed account of the events first publicised in yesterday’s press release. by ISM Hebron and the Tel Rumeida Project Today, August 23, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) forcibly entered and searched many Palestinian homes in ...
Read More »Palestinian Companies Forced to Buy Israeli Products
by Lina Israel is constantly inventing new ways of making life in the occupied Palestinian territories ever more difficult and humiliating and several companies in the Nablus region have recently been subject to one of these policies. ISM Nablus visited ...
Read More »Teenage Settlers Hurl Glass Bottles at Human Rights Workers
By Missy and Giuseppe At approximately 1:00 PM on August 17th, settler boys were throwing rocks at Palestinian people descending the Qurtaba School stairs. One international human rights worker approached the area quickly, but was told by the soldier to ...
Read More »Resistance and Collective Punishment in Beit Furik and Salim
by Michael Israeli setlement and raized olive field in Beit Furik Today, August 12th 2006, in the village of Salim, near the city of Nablus, Palestinians joined one another in solidarity to resist soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) ...
Read More »Unstable Soldier Harasses Palestinians and Internationals
By Missy, Giuseppe, Gary and Sebastian At approximately 9 PM August 14th, human rights workers (HRW) living in Tel Rumeida went to the checkpoint to investigate a rumor of abuse of a Palestinian man by the soldiers there. They noticed ...
Read More »Soldiers Detain Palestinian Kids for getting hit with Settlers’ Rocks
By Missy At approximately 4:00 PM August 14th, while sitting at Checkpoint #56 in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, three Israeli soldiers escorted two Palestinian boys who appeared to be around ten years of age to the police station. The boys were ...
Read More »IWPS: 19 year old man shot at Huwarra checkpoint
12 August 2006 Today the International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS) visited a family in Haris whose son had been shot after he passed through Huwarra checkpoint on the way out of Nablus. Their son Salem is 19 years old and ...
Read More »B’Tselem and HaMoked:Israel’s freeze policy on family unification in the Occupied Territories splits tens of thousands of Palestinian families
15 August 2006 Today, B’Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, are publishing Perpetual Limbo , a report on Israel ‘s policy of freezing family unification for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Although the policy affects almost ...
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