Category: Reports

  • Activists support rehabilitation of historic natural springs destroyed by settlers

    International Solidarity Movement 02 April 2010 A group of internationals, including two ISM activists, joined supporters from Jerusalem and other parts of the West Bank in assisting the villagers of Qarawat Bani Hassan repair and rehabilitate the historic natural springs which lie in the nearby Wadi Qana. The springs which issue at the base of…

  • Two arrested in Al Ma’asara

    International Solidarity Movement 2nd April, 2010 Demonstrators gathered today in Al Masara, near Bethlehem, in commemoration of Land Day, marking the anniversary of mass confiscation of Palestinian land in 1976. Palestinians, Israelis and internationals marched peacefully towards the village’s land. However, Israeli military, police and border police blocked the road with barbed wire, at which…

  • Military Judge Criticizes Police; Releases the Bethlehem Ten

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 01 April 2010 Judge Dahan of the Ofer Military Court in the West Bank ordered the release of the ten peaceful demonstrators arrested in Bethlehem last Sunday, among them PLO Executive Committee’s Abbas Zaki. The judge criticized the police and prosecution saying that the protest was nonviolent, and that the only…

  • Budrus marks Land Day with olive tree planting and nonviolent resistance

    International Solidarity Movement 31 March 2010 Nearly 100 residents of Budrus, Israli activist and internationals comemorated Land Day with a nonviolent march and tree planting action. The IOF used tear gas, sound bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets to violently repress the commemoration. Less than ten villagers were hit with rubber-coated steel bullets resulting in no…

  • Israeli soldiers ransack Palestinian homes and damage belongings in Tuba village

    Christian Peacemaker Teams 31 March 2010 On March 31, the Israeli Special Police Forces entered the Palestinian village of Tuba, immediately east of Ma’on settlement, and destroyed household belongings in two homes in the village. The police forced Tuba residents from their homes and told them that they were searching for two goats which settlers…