Category: Reports

  • Settlers destroy part of protest tent outside Al-Kurd family home, East Jerusalem

    10th October 2008 – Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Occupied East Jerusalem At 11.30 am on the 10th October, the settler family occupying part of the Al-Kurd family home in East Jerusalem destroyed part of the protest tent established by the Al-Kurd family in defiance of their eviction order. This move from the settlers was despite an…

  • Harvesting olives on the Green Line in Gaza

    Film by Fida Qishta. Language editing by ISM Gaza On the 9th October, members of ISM Gaza supported an action organised by a Palestinian youth group called The Local Initiative. Olive farmers were accompanied onto their land, situated extremely close to the Green Line, under the shadow of several Israeli watchtowers. Palestinian and international activists…

  • ISM Gaza: Israel continues to breach ceasefire agreement with attacks on fishermen

    On Wednesday 8th October, international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) accompanied Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza. In the morning, while sailing about 7 nautical miles from shore, Israeli gunboats approached the Palestinian fishing boats. After request from Palestinian captain, one of the internationals talked on VHF radio. Despite that fact, Israeli gunboats continued…

  • Farmers from Salim village discover theft and damage to their olive groves

    On Monday 6 October approximately 15 families went to their lands near Elon More settlement only to discover many of the trees have yielded little harvest and the olives had been stolen by settlers. The village had been given 3 days from the Israeli District Co-ordination Office (DCO) where protection for farmers would be provided…

  • ISM Rafah: Israeli navy fire shells at Gazan fishermen

    On Sunday October 5th, two international human rights observers accompanied a Gazan fishing boat offshore of Jabalya. Soon an Israeli gunboat approached. The internationals, after a request from the Palestinian captain, made clear that there was an international presence on board. For a while the Israeli gunboat seemed to leave but then, suddenly, from a…