by ISM Hebron, 24th October Today was the second day of Eid, the three-day holiday after Ramadan. During these three days, families visit each other, something made very hard by the soldiers stationed in Tel Rumeida. Internationals walking up the ...
Read More »Donkey Forced To Go Through Tel Rumeida Checkpoint
by ISM Hebron, 21st October After a few hours of quiet and calm at the guard post on the top of the hill, one Human Rights Worker (HRW) worker went inside the HRW flat very briefly to retrieve a few ...
Read More »“Hate Does Not Come Easy” – Home Demolition in East Jerusalem
by an ISM volunteer, October 22nd “I tell my children it’s my fault that our house was demolished. I say that because daddy didn’t have a building permit, I broke the law and so they had to tear it down. ...
Read More »Thirty Days in the Nablus Region
by ISM Nablus, October 19, 2006 The Nablus region, with its three refugee camps, many villages, Old City and sprawling city center has been a scene of consistent Israeli violence. Such violence has accelerated since the beginning of the Palestinian ...
Read More »Bil’in Peacefully Breaches Fence
by ISM media team, October 20th At midday yesterday the villagers of Bil’in again marched in solidarity with Emad Bornat, who was attacked and taken from Bil’in by the Israeli occupation forces on 6th October. Nearly forty people, twenty Palestinians ...
Read More »Israeli Soldiers Harass Palestinian Civilians in Tel Rumeida
by Tel Rumeida Project and ISM Hebron, 18th October 2006 At approximately 12.40pm an Israeli border police van stopped and asked two international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) on Shuhada Street whether they spoke English. When they replied that they did, ...
Read More »Nablus Villagers Face Impediments to Olive Harvest from Israeli Soldiers
by ISM Nablus, 18th October Qusin is a small picturesque village located in the green rolling hills just west of Nablus city and adjacent to the Israeli colony of Qedumim. Since the height of the Al-Aqsa intifada, the village has ...
Read More »Two Reports From Qalandiya Checkpoint
Fifty People Detained at Qalandiya Checkpoint from brightonpalestine.org, 16th October I passed through Qalandiya checkpoint today on the way back to Hebron. As the bus reached the Ramallah side of the “terminal” the passengers got out and walked towards the ...
Read More »“Those are the rules” in Tel Rumeida
by ISM Hebron, October 17th At 12.35pm two soldiers asked a Human Rights Worker (HRW) sitting opposite checkpoint 56 (the main entrance in and out of the Israeli controled H2 part of Hebron) to not watch the soldiers at the ...
Read More »Israeli Settlers Annex 150 Dunams of Palestinian Lands in Susia
by ISM media team, October 17th The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported yesterday that settlers from the illegal colony of Susia, east of Yatta in the south of the Hebron region, annexed 150 dunams of farmland, plowed them and planted ...
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