by Sam Bahour Last Wednesday, the victims were: Milad Abu-Aris, Jaafer Khaled, Aysar Kasam and Ra’ad Rabah. As I write, I can hear heavy and loud gunfire coming from the Al-Amari Refugee Camp next to our home. It is the ...
Read More »Clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians in Ramallah
by Sousan Hammad, I’m sitting in the ISC office in Ramallah. I get a phone call from one of the workers of the organization. I really could not understand what he was saying. He was yelling, “Don’t go outside, they ...
Read More »ICAHD: “Don’t Say ‘We Didn’t Know'”
A message from the Israeli committee against home demolitions: A few years ago Zakya from the village Zita donated a kidney to her brother. It didn’t help and he passed away due to delays in the granting of permits for ...
Read More »Bil’in Protest: Journalists Targeted, Many Injured
Hitham al-Khateeb, who was filming the demonstration, suffered a skull fracture from a tear gas canister Today Friday May 19, 2006, the army escalated its violent tactics against non-violent protestors in Bil’in, leaving 26 people injured, including Hitham al-Khateeb, who ...
Read More »Non-Violent Demonstration Against the Wall in Ar-Ram Attacked by Israeli Military
by ISM Media Office volunteers Saturday 13th May: Around 800 Palestinian and 200 Israeli and international demonstrators, representing a broad coalition of people, united in a march to call for the dismantling of the Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian town ...
Read More »Shabbat+new soldiers+settlers=ouch!
By Mary, a 75 year-old ISM volunteer in Tel Rumeida Shabbat, new soldiers and violent settlers make a very unpleasant day. At 11am, I was at the Tel Rumeida crossing waiting for children to come from the Qurduba school. The ...
Read More »Report on Razor Wire closing entrance to the track leading to the Al Azzeh homes
by Mary Baxter, May 11th 2006 When razor wire was placed across the entrance to the track leading to the Al Azzeh homes in December 2005, it was done at the instigation of Israeli settlers from Tel Rumeida settlement. The ...
Read More »Harrasing students in Jenin
by Ash Early in the morning, I left home with my friends going toward my university (the Arab American University). It’s about 40 minutes from my village. On the way, each one of us told our own story about the ...
Read More »How else could I buy food and clothes?
By Tom At Al Quds Open University Campus in Tubas we met Raed and Firas, aged 22 and 21 yrs old. They both work in the fields and packing houses of the Jordan Valley settlements to be able to survive ...
Read More »Shofat Camp Non violent Demonstration for Right to Worship Successful
Residents of Shofat refugee camp in Jerusalem, along with international and Israeli supporters, today demonstrated non-violently against the Israeli Border Polices’ often violent suppression of the camps residents’ right to cross the checkpoint at the camp entrance to pray in ...
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