Category: Reports

  • Rice Not Welcome in Ramallah!

    by Signifier Taking part in a national day of protest against the West Bank arrival of US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, residents of Ramallah, the site of Ms. Rice’s visit, shut down shop and took to the streets yesterday. The usually bustling downtown lay dormant, as store owners heeded the call for a one…

  • Tel Rumeida Birthday Circus

    Yehuda yells at some soldiers who don’t want us to go to the Abu Haykal house by Shlomo Bloom July 24th: Today was the 16th birthday of two girls in the Abu Haykal family who live at the end of Tel Rumeida street, surrounded by the extremist Jewish settlers of Hebron. This Palestinian family is…

  • Settlers Burn Farmer’s Roof; ISM Rebuilds Despite Intimidation

    Israeli Colonist Wear: tallis, tzitziyot, and masks by Harry Pockets On 22nd July, ISM activists and Israeli activists joined locals from Suseya to rebuild the roof of a farmer’s home that had been burned by neighbouring Israeli colonists. Suseya, an agricultural village located in the South Hebron hills, repeatedly has come under attack by Israeli…

  • Police Seize Palestinian IDs

    by ISM Hebron, July 23 2006 5:30 Two Palestinian women from the Tel Rumeida neighborhood were on their way to visit their aunt in the hospital when the police stopped them for an ID check. Because one of the women was not wearing a headscarf, as is normal in the particularly religious city of Hebron,…

  • A Flying Start to Freedom Summer 2006

    Picture from a road-block removal action in Izbat Tabib from the 15th of July. Three weeks in, and the International Solidarity Movement’s “Freedom Summer 2006” has gotten off to a flying start. More and more activists are coming to the West Bank every week, participating in two days of training before heading out to the…