Category: Reports
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Freedom Riders: “I felt like I was witnessing history”
by Ben Lorber 15 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Earlier today, 7 Palestinian activists were arrested as part of the Freedom Rides attempt to board segregated buses going from the West Bank into occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinians, Israelis and ISM activists waited at a bus stop outside the illegal settlement of Psagot,…
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Al Qasab demolished as hundreds of Israeli soldiers watch
by Guillaume and William 15 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank This morning, on Tuesday 15th November, national day of Palestine, three houses in Al Qasab near Jericho were destroyed by the Israeli military. During the early morning, between two and three hundred Israeli soldiers entered Al Qasab with bulldozers and destroyed the houses.…
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Jerusalem: Explosions, arrests and violence as Israel clears way for settlement activity
by Alistair George 13 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Three Palestinians were arrested and others were detained, beaten and pepper sprayed by the Israeli military in Al-Walajeh yesterday, as villagers attempted to prevent the detonation of explosives used to widen the route for the separation wall on the village’s land. Previously, large…
