Category: Reports

  • No signs of ceasing resistance in Ni’lin

    6 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday, 5 August, the weekly demonstration against the illegal settlement near the Palestinian village of Ni’lin was held, despite the majority of its participants fasting for Ramadan. Although smaller than is usual it consisted of about forty people from the local community and a group…

  • Ramadan in the Buffer Zone

    2 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The buffer zone is a place of death.  300 meters of destroyed land, land that used to be alive, that used to be filled with orchards, houses, and fields, now, all dead.  To enter the buffer zone is to risk your life, even to come close to it, the…

  • Music guides peaceful resistance in Kufr Qaddoum

    1 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday July 29, 2011 the Popular Committee of Kufr Qaddoum included musical guests from the Netherlands, Fanfare, to play for Kufr Qaddoum’s weekly demonstration against a roadblock that closes off the main road to the village. The demonstration began  around 1:30pm after Friday morning prayer. Dressed in an array…