Category: Reports

  • For 2 hours, Palestinian teachers detained at checkpoint in Tel Rumeida

    For 2 hours, Palestinian teachers detained at checkpoint in Tel Rumeida by ISM Hebron8 April 2007 TEL RUMEIDA, HEBRON– At 12:40, just as Palestinian school teachers from the Qurtuba Girls’ School were approaching the Israeli checkpoint to go home, two Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint went inside the monitoring post, locked themselves in. The school…

  • Sewage Tsunami & Strangulation in Gaza

    Sewage Tsunami & Strangulation in Gaza by Anna Baltzer, 6 April 2007 One week ago, the walls of an overused cesspool in northern Gaza collapsed, flooding a nearby Bedouin village with up to two meters of raw sewage. At least five people drowned to death, with dozens more left sick, injured, or missing. Predictably, the…

  • Crucified at the Crossroads: Good Friday, Bad Soldiers

    Ma’asara : Good Friday demo against the wall from Anarchists Against the Wall, 6 April 2007 UPDATE: Video can be seen by clicking HERE The struggle against the apartheid wall in villages south of bethlehem took a step forward today, when the regular “Friday demo” was replaced by a direct action against the bulldozers that…

  • Economic Embargo in Palestine leads to death of 19 year old dialysis patient

    19-year-old girl dies when hospital runs out of dialysis solution due to ongoing economic embargo from IWPS, 7 April 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On March 1st, 2007, a 19-year-old girl named Olfat with kidney problems from Qira village, died after her parents were forced to dilute her dialysis liquid. Due to the West and Israel’s…

  • Tragic, but not enough to mention

    The Untold Stories: Tragic, but Not Enough to Mention by Anna in Palestine Today I visited my friend Dawud in Kufr ‘Ain for the first time since he lost his six-month-old baby at Atara Checkpoint. It was heartbreaking to hear the details of the story from a man who just one month ago was asking…