From Sa’eed Yakin, the coordinator of the Popular Committee in the northwest Jerusalem area: “The first thing I would like to say is that we are categorically against the killing of civilians on both sides. The second thing is that ...
Read More »The Surreal Story of Qawawis Continues
Take a trip to Qawawis and you step back in time, yet remain in a surreal and frightening present. It’s an extraordinary place of stark beauty, situated at the extreme southern tip of the Occupied West Bank. Most of the ...
Read More »Palestinians commemorate Prisoners Day, as all hell breaks loose
By Laila el-Haddad Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 I’m very tired so instead of posting something on how all hells break loose here between one second and the next, and how just when you say to yourself-well how about that, ...
Read More »Jab’a Ploughs its Land
This morning I travelled to the village of Jab’a, just South of Bethlehem, where local Palestinian farmers have faced intimidation by settlers when trying to access their land. Jab’a is a village of 900 people facing annexation of part of ...
Read More »Update on Occupied Home in Nablus
The Israeli army has withdrawn from one of the homes occupied earlier today in Nablus, although as many as five other houses remain occupied. The twelve soldiers left the Mushara home at 3pm, after having occupied it since 3:30am Monday. ...
Read More »Settler Attacks and House Occupations in Hebron
by Tom Settlers attacked Palestinian houses and targeted the Palestinian residents of Tel Rumeida today, the first Shabbat of the Passover period. A Palestinian boy was attacked at 4.30pm by five settlers on Shuhada Street. The settlers knocked him off ...
Read More »Interview with Dr. Ghassan Hamdan of Palestinian Medical Relief Services
Listen to an interview with Dr. Ghassan Hamdan of the PMRS as he tries to gain acess to two families of 15 people in Nablus imprisoned and held captive by the Israeli army as they use their home for a ...
Read More »Bil’in Breaks the Chains
by an ISM Media office volunteer On Friday the 14th of April, the villagers of Bil’in held their weekly demonstration against the apartheid wall that is de-facto annexing over half of their land to Israel. Land that the government of ...
Read More »Protest at Beit Sira
On 14th April, my second day in Palestine, I visited the small village of Beit Sira, near Ramallah. In many other countries the inhabitants of such a village would spend today tending their farms, being with their families and friends, ...
Read More »Farmers in Nablus Prevented from Working their Land by Both Settlers and Military
Farmers in Salem, near Nablus, were joined on Friday the 7th of April by Israeli and international human rights workers to protect against further settler violence. Earlier in the week a 68 year-old villager was beaten by settlers and required ...
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