Category: Reports

  • The Trip from Tulkarm to Ramallah: 3 road blocks, 5 check-points, 7 cars

    How long does it take to travel from the north-east of the West Bank, to the centre? In such a small area of land, you might think not long. A Palestinian ISM co-ordinator gives an account of the realities of trying to get out of the prison that the Israeli military is turning the north…

  • Border Police Lash Out

    The huge Palestinian flag that has been used by the village on demonstrations by an ISM Media office volunteer Today’s non-violent demonstration against the Wall in Bil’in was attacked by the Israeli soldiers, as usual. The demonstrators reached the gate in the annexation wall that is stealing some 60% of the village’s land. The gate…

  • Timline of a Nablus Invasion

    By Lee At approximately 11:00am the Army arrives at Tel street in Mafea Area of Nablus. Military Operation to search the 5 story Aljhe building, likely used by students at nearby al-Naija university, and possibly to arrest some occupants. Four jeeps in attendance. Soldiers arrived and used live ammunition from the start. Youth stone throwing…

  • Corporate Complicity in the Ethnic Cleansing of the Jordan Valley

    I was convinced by a friend to take a trip to the Jordan Valley this week. This is my fourth trip to Palestine but I have never visited the region and have heard relatively little about it. This is symptomatic of the condition of the valley, it is largely forgotten by the international community and…

  • Update on Nablus Incursions

    Today, April 22nd, the army invaded Nablus again, which they have done almost everyday since last Monday, evacuating soldiers in houses that they have occupied. Today 5 people were hit with rubber bullets, one of them below the eye. One of them was a reporter with Reuters, Ashraf Sharwis, who was filming an armoured vehicle…