Category: Reports

  • Tel Rumeida: International observers and Palestinians alike targeted by checkpoints

    by Alistair George 27 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank  The Israeli military is continuing to harass and intimidate Palestinians and international volunteers at checkpoints throughout Tel Rumeida, Hebron.  On 25 October 2011, around 7.15pm, a Palestinian woman was held at checkpoint56 inTel Rumeida for around an hour after refusing to pass through…

  • The Olive and the F-16: Autumn in Gaza

    The Olive and the F-16: Autumn in Gaza

    by Radhika S. 27 October 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade Today completes another week of olive picking in Gaza.  Another week of pausing, breaths held, as Israeli tanks the color of sand moved nearby along the buffer zone, another week of children frightened at the sound of roaring F-16s, another week below the…

  • Settlers desperately try to fit the role by stealing olives

    Settlers desperately try to fit the role by stealing olives

    by Aida Gerard  25 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Tuesday, illegal settlers from the Susiya settlement harvested the olive trees belonging to the Abu Sabha family from Susiya and Yatta, South Hebron Hills. Around 12 o’ clock a villager from the area spotted two settlers picking olives from the land of…