Category: Reports

  • Funeral of 23 year old Mohammed Asfour leads to Israeli army invasion of village

    9th March 2013| Lisa Marchant, Occupied Palestine 23 year old Mohammed Asfour died on the 7th of March, from injuries sustained during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strikers in Israeli jails. He was shot in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet at the demonstration on the 22nd of February and…

  • Sebastiya protests against sewage dumping

    9th March 2013| Popular Struggle Coordination Committee On Friday, the village of Sebastiya held its first demonstration in order to protest the flooding of its land by the sewage coming from the nearby Jewish-only settlement of Save Shomron. Around 150 people from Sebastiya, together with Israeli and international activists, participated in the demonstration which was…

  • Israel bans ISM co-founder from witnessing birth of his first born

    7th March 2013| International Solidarity Movement, Occupied Palestine “ISM Co-Founder and soon to be father, Adam Shapiro prohibited from witnessing the birth of his first child due to an undisclosed travel ban from 2009 and forthcoming deportation” “Adam and I are expecting our first child, a boy in about 5 weeks. As joyful as this…