Category: Reports
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Raw conversations with released Palestinian prisoners
by Alistair George 2 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Below is an abridged transcript of talks given by Palestinian former-prisoners, (released as part of the Hamas-Shalit deal) at PASSIA (Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs ) Roundtable on ‘Prisoner Release – Palestinian Narratives’ on 31 October 2011. Ibrahim Mish’al…
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Egyptian Ambassador promises to deliver petition to open Rafah Border
2 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On November first, activists from popular committees and activist youth movements through out the West Bank met with Egyptian ambassador , his Excellency Yasser Othman, in Ramallah to express their congratulations and support for the people’s revolution of Egypt and to formally present a petition to…
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Israel drops missile on North Gaza neighborhood, no one cares
Radhika Sainath | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Israeli Air Force fired a missile into a Beit Hanoun residential neighborhood in north Gaza early Sunday morning. The missile landed in a grove surrounded by homes, creating a crater the size of a tennis court and destroying over forty orange and olive trees. Chunks of shrapnel and…
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Nil’in: The solitary confinement of olive trees
by Aida Gerard 31 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The selective Israeli permission system prevents many families from Nil’in from reaching their land behind the wall to pick their own olives as the olive harvest season nears its end. The families who received permissions have until the 10th November to pick their…
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Israel: Charging house demolition victims to pay costs of demolition equipment
by Samira | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The people in the Bedouin community, Mihtawish, in Khan el Ahmar area outside Jerusalem today faced a house demolition. Three family houses were demolished, which hosted in total 39 people. 30 of them are children. One family lived in their house year round and two were soon…
