Category: Reports

  • Izbet Tabib under threat

    24 August 2010 | ISM Media In the small village of Izbet Tabib near Qalqiliya in the north of the West Bank, 27 of the 55 houses have received eviction orders from Israeli authorities. Located in Area C (following the Oslo Accords making it Israeli civilian and militarily controlled), the village has an extremely hard…

  • Demonstration against water theft in Baqa’a Valley, Hebron

    23 August 2010 | ISM Media Today (23 August 2010) a demonstration was held in the Baqa’a Valley, east of Hebron, against the theft of water from the Palestinian population in the area. About 15 water trucks were parked along Road 60, the road that runs through the valley. The intention was to protest against…

  • Criminalization of peaceful protest continues: More arrests at weekly demonstrations

    23 August 2010 | ISM Media Bil’in The weekly demonstration in the village of Bil’in this week saw protesters draw attention to the recently published photos of the abuse of Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli army. A handful of the protesters blindfolded and handcuffed themselves to draw attention to the mistreatment of prisoners and marched…

  • Successful outcome in Swedish peace activist’s legal appeal against Israeli sentence banning him from Palestine

    20 August 2010 On Thursday 12 August 2010 Swedish peace activist Marcus Regnander’s legal battle with the Police Department of Hebron ended successfully. His appeal against a sentence which banned him from the West Bank for six months, after being convicted – despite the absence of any evidence – of assaulting a soldier, was filed…

  • Provocations continue: settler rally in Al Buwayra

    19 August 2010 | ISM Media Al Buwayra /Al Baqa’a Valley About 4 pm on 18 August 2010, a group of international activists witnessed an large number of Israeli settlers walking in groups up to “Hill 18” in Al Buwayra, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Hebron. Settlers there had made an outpost in the very…