Category: Reports

  • Bil’in Protest: Journalists Targeted, Many Injured

    Hitham al-Khateeb, who was filming the demonstration, suffered a skull fracture from a tear gas canister Today Friday May 19, 2006, the army escalated its violent tactics against non-violent protestors in Bil’in, leaving 26 people injured, including Hitham al-Khateeb, who was filming the demonstration, suffered a fracture in his skull from a tear gas canister…

  • Non-Violent Demonstration Against the Wall in Ar-Ram Attacked by Israeli Military

    by ISM Media Office volunteers Saturday 13th May: Around 800 Palestinian and 200 Israeli and international demonstrators, representing a broad coalition of people, united in a march to call for the dismantling of the Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian town of Ar-Ram, just north of Jerusalem. With the participation of schoolchildren, teachers, neighborhood residents and…

  • Shabbat+new soldiers+settlers=ouch!

    By Mary, a 75 year-old ISM volunteer in Tel Rumeida Shabbat, new soldiers and violent settlers make a very unpleasant day. At 11am, I was at the Tel Rumeida crossing waiting for children to come from the Qurduba school. The Palestinian Abu Aeshah girls, who live near the Israeli Tel Rumeida settlement came. I accompanied…

  • Report on Razor Wire closing entrance to the track leading to the Al Azzeh homes

    by Mary Baxter, May 11th 2006 When razor wire was placed across the entrance to the track leading to the Al Azzeh homes in December 2005, it was done at the instigation of Israeli settlers from Tel Rumeida settlement. The children of the Al Azzeh family need to pass it in order to get to…

  • Harrasing students in Jenin

    by Ash Early in the morning, I left home with my friends going toward my university (the Arab American University). It’s about 40 minutes from my village. On the way, each one of us told our own story about the other day at Israeli checkpoints. Last week (other students and I) were heading back home…