Category: Reports

  • IMEMC: Hundreds attend Second Bil’in Int’l Conference

    Hundreds join the Bilin Conferene on Popular Resistance by George Rishmawi, 18 April 2007 Speakers stressed the need for popular resistance More than five hundred Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists arrived in Bilin on Wednesday morning to join the second international conference on popular resistance, which is held in a marquee in the heart…

  • IOF Harrassment in Izbat at-Tabib

    IOF Harrassment in Izbat at-Tabib by Tom Hayes, 18 April 2007 The village of Izbat at-Tabib, in Qalqillya region, has been undergoing constant harassment by the IOF this week. The army has entered the village every day, often setting up flying checkpoints close to the village. Two days ago the IOF ordered all residents to…

  • House Demolitions Planned in Al Hadidi

    House Demolitions Planned in Al Hadidi from Brighton Palestine, 18 April 2007 Update, 24 April 2007 Residents of five of the houses have relocated before the imminent house demolitions. At least two families are staying in their houses, refusing to leave. One resident has stated, “I will not leave my house! I will be here…

  • Pain and Pride on Prisoner’s Day in Hebron

    Pain and Pride on Prisoner’s Day in Hebron by V, 17 April 2007 Prisoners Day in Hebron was marked with a march of around 1000 people. Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters carried pictures of their imprisoned loved ones. Some were too young to have seen their relatives. Some were old enough, or their…

  • Turning the other cheek near Bethlehem

    by Kobi Snitz The first visible achievement of the non-violent resistance of the Ma’asara villages was visible even before the demonstration began. When people began preparing for the demonstration they noticed that, unlike previous Fridays, there was no construction today. The bulldozers were parked far away in their fenced lot and the security guards were…