by Rann Around 10:15pm on Tuesday, July 25th 2006, ISM activists were alerted to a large army operation taking place in the Ein Omesharayet neighborhood of Ramallah. Four activists arrived at the scene around 15 minutes later to act as ...
Read More »Rice Not Welcome in Ramallah!
by Signifier Taking part in a national day of protest against the West Bank arrival of US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, residents of Ramallah, the site of Ms. Rice’s visit, shut down shop and took to the streets yesterday. ...
Read More »Tel Rumeida Birthday Circus
Yehuda yells at some soldiers who don’t want us to go to the Abu Haykal house by Shlomo Bloom July 24th: Today was the 16th birthday of two girls in the Abu Haykal family who live at the end of ...
Read More »Settlers Burn Farmer’s Roof; ISM Rebuilds Despite Intimidation
Israeli Colonist Wear: tallis, tzitziyot, and masks by Harry Pockets On 22nd July, ISM activists and Israeli activists joined locals from Suseya to rebuild the roof of a farmer’s home that had been burned by neighbouring Israeli colonists. Suseya, an ...
Read More »Police Seize Palestinian IDs
by ISM Hebron, July 23 2006 5:30 Two Palestinian women from the Tel Rumeida neighborhood were on their way to visit their aunt in the hospital when the police stopped them for an ID check. Because one of the women ...
Read More »A Flying Start to Freedom Summer 2006
Picture from a road-block removal action in Izbat Tabib from the 15th of July. Three weeks in, and the International Solidarity Movement’s “Freedom Summer 2006” has gotten off to a flying start. More and more activists are coming to the ...
Read More »Settlers in Hebron Continue Campaign of Harassment and Violence
by Harry and Kyle July 19-22, 2006 In Tel Rumeida, Hebron, six settler men between the ages of 16 and 25 entered a Palestinian shoe manufacturing shop across the street from the ISM/TRP apartment. They began throwing shoes around, disrupting ...
Read More »Bil’in Mourns Hundreds of Cilivian Deaths
Today, July 21, 2006, the people of Bil’in marched in silence to the Apartheid Wall with the support of Israelis and internationals. The weekly march turned into a mourner’s procession as two hundred and fifty demonstrators carried a 20 meter ...
Read More »Home Destruction Threat in Bir Nabala village
Documents granting the Bedouin the right to the land Today Bedouin houses were under threat of demolition in Bir Nabala village in the Jerusalem area. Since 1994, when forced to leave their homes in Al Ram by the Israeli military, ...
Read More »Israeli Soldiers Contaminate Water Tanks of Human Rights Workers
By Joe Skillet On Saturday, July 15, 2006, human rights workers in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, discovered that Israeli soldiers had been using the Human Rights Workers’ (HRWs) four water tanks as waste bins. Though it is unsure how long the ...
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