Category: Reports

  • ‘Unity of Ni’lin to Gaza urgently’

    On the 17th  of January 2009, residents of Ni’lin began a collection of clothes and food to be sent to the besieged people of Gaza. Calls from the mosques announced that contributions of clothes, shoes and food could be brought to the village center. Aid collection for Gaza from the people of Ni’lin had been…

  • Closures in Huwwara and Beita villages

    At 3am on January 17th, Israeli Occupation Forces invaded the villages of Huwwara and Beita. In Huwwara, they closed off the main street and used rubble from nearby construction sites to block side streets while several jeeps took up positions at either end of the village.  While no official curfew was announced, several village residents…

  • Interview with Sharon Locke from Al-Quds hospital

    15th January 2009: Interview with Sharon Locke of the International Solidarity Movement from within Al Quds Hospital, Tel al Huwa neighbourhood

  • Israeli military shell UNRWA school

    17th January 2009, Beit Lahiya, Gaza: An UNRWA school in Beit Lahiya is being shelled by the Israeli Army. International Human Rights Activists are at the scene, assisting in the evacuation of families to neighboring buildings. Irish Human Rights Activist Caoimhe Butterly said; One UNWRA school was hit this morning. Two young children, ages 4…

  • Israeli forces kill seventeen year old as Hebron demonstrates in solidarity with Gaza

    Israeli soldiers killed a 17 year old Palestinian youth and injured around 20 others on Friday during a demonstration in the H-2 (Israeli-controlled) Abu Sneineh neighborhood of Hebron. The Israeli soldiers opened fire on the crowd assembling near the Wasaya Rasol mosque before the demonstration had even begun.  A large barrage of tear gas dispersed…