Category: Reports
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Gazans demonstrate on anniversary of Balfour Declaration
4 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement As Israeli army snipers in the control tower at the Erez crossing looked on, Saber Al Za’anin, the General Coordinator of the Local Initiative group spoke passionately about Palestinian resistance on the anniversary of the November 3rd 1917 Balfour Declaration. “We carry forward the fight of our great…
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Weekly Demonstrations: Friday, 29 October 2010
29 October, 2010 | International Solidarity Movement 22 people injured, 5 still in hospital, at increasingly violent An Nabi Saleh Demonstration by Henni Many shebab, two journalists and a girl were injured on Friday at the weekly demonstration in An Nabi Saleh. Villagers had employed a new strategy in response to the increasing violence of…
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ISM activists protest the OECD conference in Al Quds
This weekend the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conference was held in Jerusalem, despite pressure from human rights groups for it to be held elsewhere or not at all. After their insistence on holding the conference here, ignoring Israel’s blatant violations of international law and colluding with their aspirations to claim Jerusalem as…
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Soldiers abandon Palestinian farmers in Kufr Qalil
24 October 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Farmers in Kufr Qalil, near Nablus, were scheduled to receive army protection yesterday through the Israeli District Coordination Office (DCO), in order to harvest their olives on land near the illegal Bracha settlement. The family, accompanied by four international activists, went to the land and was initially pleased…
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Israeli forces attack weekly West Bank demonstrations
22 October 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Today in the village of An-Nabi Salah, the weekly non-violent demonstration took place against the illegal settlement Hamish. Unlike other villages taking part in non-violent resistance, many women, young girls and children participate in the protest. Today, there was a child demonstration. A commemoration also took place in…
