Category: Reports

  • Kufr Qaddoum: In the footsteps of an unwarranted arrest

    12 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Following the first barrage of tear gas during November 11th’s peaceful demonstration in Kufr Qaddoum , some Israeli soldiers began to make their way into the village. The soldiers picked up one villager, 30 year old Hazzem Barham, who was lying down unconscious from the tear…

  • Israeli navy kidnaps two Palestinian children and uncle fishing in Gazan waters

    Israeli navy kidnaps two Palestinian children and uncle fishing in Gazan waters

    by Radhika S. 12 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Seventeen-year-old Abdul Qader Baker still has no idea why the Israeli navy surrounded his small fishing boat at 4 a.m. Thursday morning, ordered him, his 17-year-old cousin Mohamed Baker, and his uncle, Arafat Baker, to strip off their clothes, stand shivering in their underwear…

  • Palestinian Scouts welcome exiled prisoner to Gaza

    Palestinian Scouts welcome exiled prisoner to Gaza

    by Joe Catron 12 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Palestinian Scouts and their families rallied in the Gaza YMCA Friday afternoon to honor former political prisoner Christian Al-Bandak and welcome him to Gaza. Al-Bandak, who donned a Scout neckerchief to receive a commemorative plaque, is one of 477 prisoners already released by Israel…