Category: Reports
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Burin: Youth football surrounded by monuments to Israeli occupation
by Ben Lorber 12 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 7th of December, a windy Wednesday morning behind the boys’ school in the Palestinian village of Burin, 15 teenagers, dressed in red uniform, took to the football field under the coach’s whistle. As the team began its warm-up exercises, another youth…
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Qalandia: White sky of tear gas looms over apartheid wall construction
by Rana H. 9 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Peaceful protesters came face to face with Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in Qalandia on Friday before soldiers began to fire tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at the civilian group including children, women, and elders. Qalandia village is protesting the construction of the…
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Sheikh Jarrah: Al Kurd family faces 30 day deadline
by Samar and Meriem 11 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank ISM has been following the situation of the Al Kurd family from Sheikh Jarrah since 2009 and has kept a presence in the garden of their home. The Al Kurd family is of five other families targeted by these evications. The Fawziya Al…
