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 ...
Read More »Bil’in: Un-cage Palestine!
by an ISM Media office volunteer The non-violent demonstration against the Apartheid Wall on the land of Bil’in village this week was themed around the economic siege of Palestine by western powers. Israeli and international activists with pictures of western ...
Read More »Learning under occupation in Jordan Valley
by Tom Al Jifflik is a small village in the northern Jordan Valley. The villagers live largely in houses built of plastic and tin, as they are barred in Israeli law from building or repairing their houses. There is an ...
Read More »BBC’s Coverage of Palestine/Israel unbalanced
Study finds failures in news balance and depth Reports said to show little to suggest deliberate bias Owen Gibson, media correspondent, Wednesday May 3, 2006 The BBC’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “incomplete” and “misleading”, including failing to adequately ...
Read More »Israeli mayhem in the Jordan Valley
I have just returned from the Jordan Valley – an area that takes up 30% of the West Bank but is almost entirely annexed by Israel. It’s the most fertile land in the West Bank with massive underground water reserves, ...
Read More »At last, a peaceful Shabbat in Tel Rumeida
This Saturday, the 30th of April everybody was apprehensive about further settler attacks. Over the last three shabbats settlers have mounted more and more organised attacks against internationals and Palestians in Tel Rumeida. There was a large intrernational presence in ...
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