by George Rishmawi International Middle East Media Center Israel denied access to a group of 130 international human rights and peace activists of the Caravan for Justice in Palestine, who tried to access the country, coming from Jordan, Palestinian sources ...
Read More »Protesters blocked the path of the Annexation Barrier
For photos of the action see: freckle.blogs.com/photos/strength_in_unity Bil’in- 6:00 AM Today Protestors blocked the path of the Israeli bulldozers working to build the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in. They were chained together in a cylinder six meters long which allowed only ...
Read More »IWPS: Killing Salfit
16 year old boy killed in Salfit following assassination of two men by Apache helicopters; 9 people injured by gunshots, rubber bullets, and tear gas inhalation; Army raids hospital and fires tear gas at entrance; ambulances blocked and doctor beaten. ...
Read More »Is the World Blind: Two more families lose their homes in East Jerusalem today
Merijn De Jong, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu==5&submenu==1&item=$6 Two more families in East-Jerusalem lost their homes today and another two families had their belongings thrown out into the street as a new wave of house demolitions swept through ...
Read More »Village Demolished
Khirbet Tana, near Beit Furik, Nablus On July 5th, Israeli forces demolished the entire village of Tana, near Beit Furik, Nablus. The residents had received one day’s notice (via a piece of paper left outside one of their dwellings) that ...
Read More »Update on Ramzi Yassin of Bil’in from Muqassed Hospital
Ramzi Yassin was shot in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet by an Israeli soldier at a protest in Bil’in on Friday July 8. Ramzi has been unconscious and in serious condition since then. He was transferred from a ...
Read More »Shop flattening scheduled by illegal expansion
Eight shops next to the Israeli Chemical factory built on land stolen from Tul Karem municipality are scheduled to be destroyed in fourteen days. Built in 1996, and owned by Ali Qasim, the shops have been closed since September 2000 ...
Read More »Second child from Balata refugee camp died
On Monday Balata residents endured their second child martyr’s funeral in five days. Fourteen year old Noor Faris Njem was shot in the head late last Wednesday evening when the Israeli army came to Balata Refugee Camp and, without warning, ...
Read More »Demonstration against a checkpoint near the village of Nazlat Issa
At noon on July 7 2005 around 80 Palestinians from the village of Nazlat Issa in the West Bank, accompanied by international activists, carried out a demonstration against a checkpoint near their village. Nazlat Issa is divided by the Annexation ...
Read More »Israeli army enforced collective punishment
By: Nijmie IWPS Date of incident: July 1, 2005 Place: Hares Witness/es: Villagers On the evening of Friday July 1, the Israeli army entered the village of Hares with two jeeps. The jeeps stationed themselves at the entrance to the ...
Read More »