Category: Reports

  • Internationals harassed and denied entry into Nabi Saleh

    by Wahed Rejol 18 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Following last week’s violence in the village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah, international observers and activists were today denied entry into the village by Israeli soldiers. The soldiers said that the entire village was a closed military zone and provided paperwork that seemed…

  • Al Baqa’a: The struggle of a family in the shadow of illegal annexation

    Al Baqa’a: The struggle of a family in the shadow of illegal annexation

    by Alistair George 17 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “The Israelis hope that that the young people leave, the old people die, and then they can confiscate the land and the houses” says Sami, an activist working in Al Baqa’a, a windswept valley situated a few kilometers east of Hebron. The Jaber…

  • Independence Day in the Buffer Zone

    Independence Day in the Buffer Zone

    by Nathan Stuckey 16 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Twenty three years ago today the Palestinian declaration of independence was released.  Written by Mahmoud Darwish, and unveiled to the world by Yasser Arafat in Algiers where he was living in exile like millions of other Palestinians.  Today, in Beit Hanoun, we, the Local…