Category: Reports

  • How else could I buy food and clothes?

    By Tom At Al Quds Open University Campus in Tubas we met Raed and Firas, aged 22 and 21 yrs old. They both work in the fields and packing houses of the Jordan Valley settlements to be able to survive and pay for their education. On the days that they work, they get up at…

  • Shofat Camp Non violent Demonstration for Right to Worship Successful

    Residents of Shofat refugee camp in Jerusalem, along with international and Israeli supporters, today demonstrated non-violently against the Israeli Border Polices’ often violent suppression of the camps residents’ right to cross the checkpoint at the camp entrance to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque on Fridays. Palestinian men women and children marched peacefully alongside Israeli and international…

  • Bil’in: Un-cage Palestine!

    by an ISM Media office volunteer The non-violent demonstration against the Apartheid Wall on the land of Bil’in village this week was themed around the economic siege of Palestine by western powers. Israeli and international activists with pictures of western leaders taped to their chests carried a barbed-wire cage in which a Palestinian dressed in…

  • Learning under occupation in Jordan Valley

    by Tom Al Jifflik is a small village in the northern Jordan Valley. The villagers live largely in houses built of plastic and tin, as they are barred in Israeli law from building or repairing their houses. There is an UNWRA school for children up to 13 years old. Since 1967, the inhabitants have been…

  • BBC’s Coverage of Palestine/Israel unbalanced

    Study finds failures in news balance and depth Reports said to show little to suggest deliberate bias Owen Gibson, media correspondent, Wednesday May 3, 2006 The BBC’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “incomplete” and “misleading”, including failing to adequately report the hardships of Palestinians living under occupation, an independent review commissioned by the corporation’s…