Category: Reports
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Bil’in Peacefully Breaches Fence
by ISM media team, October 20th At midday yesterday the villagers of Bil’in again marched in solidarity with Emad Bornat, who was attacked and taken from Bil’in by the Israeli occupation forces on 6th October. Nearly forty people, twenty Palestinians along with twenty internationals and Israelis, participated in the demonstration, aiming to reach the apartheid…
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Israeli Soldiers Harass Palestinian Civilians in Tel Rumeida
by Tel Rumeida Project and ISM Hebron, 18th October 2006 At approximately 12.40pm an Israeli border police van stopped and asked two international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) on Shuhada Street whether they spoke English. When they replied that they did, one of the border police said, “I no speak English” and the policemen drove away.…
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Nablus Villagers Face Impediments to Olive Harvest from Israeli Soldiers
by ISM Nablus, 18th October Qusin is a small picturesque village located in the green rolling hills just west of Nablus city and adjacent to the Israeli colony of Qedumim. Since the height of the Al-Aqsa intifada, the village has been spared overtly violent military incursions, but there are many other problems that prevent the…
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Two Reports From Qalandiya Checkpoint
Fifty People Detained at Qalandiya Checkpoint from brightonpalestine.org, 16th October I passed through Qalandiya checkpoint today on the way back to Hebron. As the bus reached the Ramallah side of the “terminal” the passengers got out and walked towards the pedestrian gates. When I had passed the turnstiles I saw that around fifty Palestinians were…
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“Those are the rules” in Tel Rumeida
by ISM Hebron, October 17th At 12.35pm two soldiers asked a Human Rights Worker (HRW) sitting opposite checkpoint 56 (the main entrance in and out of the Israeli controled H2 part of Hebron) to not watch the soldiers at the checkpoint and to move up the hill away from the checkpoint. The HRW refused to…