Category: Reports

  • Settlers attack Palestinians in Tel Rumeida, Human rights Workers Detained

    Settlers attack Palestinians in Tel Rumeida, Human Rights Workers (HRWs) Detained UPDATE 10:30 PM March 18 The two HRWs were released from Kiryat Arba at 10:05 PM At approx. 17:30 today, Sunday March 18th, two Palestinians, approx. 15 years old, were walking down Shuhadda Street in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron. As they walked…

  • Tanya Reinhart, a powerful voice has been lost

    by the ISM Media Team, March 18th Tanya Reinhart, Israeli anti-apartheid activist, died suddenly of a stroke in New York last night, March 17, 2007. She was 63 years old. Reinhart received her B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and later became a professor of linguistics at…

  • Four peaceful protestors arrested in Bil’in on Rachel Corrie anniversary

    by the ISM media team, March 16th UPDATE March 18 Kobi Snitz was released in court yesterday after the the judge denied the police’s request to extend his arrest by 48 hours. He is however banned from the territories for 15 days, and had to deposit 3,500 shekels UPDATE March 17th Kobi Snitz was held…

  • Amnesty International: Fear for safety of human rights defenders in the Occupied Territories

    Amnesty International, March 9th There have been further attacks by Israeli settlers on human rights defenders working in the Occupied Territories. The head of one international organization working in the area has voiced concern that the lives of these human rights defenders could be in danger if the attacks continue. On 5 March, a Swedish…

  • “We are still here”

    by the ISM media team, March 13th This was the message from the IOF commander of Jenin district to students from Zababda village south of Jenin when 15 students from the Arab American University and 6 students from the local secondary school were arrested early on Monday morning. During the three hour invasion the army…