Category: Reports

  • Night raids resume in Ni’lin

    15 September 2010 | ISM Media At 3 a.m. this morning the Israeli army entered the West Bank village of Ni`lin and detained a Palestinian man, Barakat Nafi. This is the first house raid since before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan; there used to be one or two such raids every week. Soldiers came…

  • Israeli soldiers raid Palestinian house in Hebron; one man arrested

    15 September 2010 | ISM Media At 21.00 on 12 September 2010, the final day of the Islamic festival of `Eid al-Fitr, eight Israeli army jeeps and armoured personnel carriers (APCs) were observed leaving the Israeli-only apartheid roads in Hebron and crossing into the Palestinian Authority-controlled “H1” region. Five international activists followed the vehicles to…

  • Gaza deaths protest comes under heavy live fire from Israeli snipers

    Gaza deaths protest comes under heavy live fire from Israeli snipers

    15 September 2010 | ISM Gaza Over 100 rounds of live ammunition were fired at peaceful protesters in a Tuesday demonstration in the Gaza strip. The protest at the Erez border area near Beit Hanoun yesterday included Palestinian activists from the Local Initiative group, local residents and 4 members of the International Solidarity Movement who…

  • Demonstrations against the illegal wall on the first day of Eid ul-Fitr

    12 September 2010 | ISM Media The weekend of 10-11th September saw the start of Eid ul-Fitr, which ends the fasting observed during the holy month of Ramadan in the Muslim religion. Three villages around Ramallah – Bil’in, Ni’lin and An Nabi Saleh – held protests on Friday 10th September despite it being the first…

  • Iftar with the army: a Hebron story

    11 September 2010 | ISM Media At about 17.00 on the 9th September 2010, right before Atta Jaber and his family were about to sit down to break the fast on the last day of Ramadan, eight soldiers appeared on the doorstep. One of them said that they wanted to come into the house, in…