Category: Reports

  • Bethlehem nabbing

    by Kristin Ess Yesterday Israeli soldiers were standing in the middle of baba skak (the main intersection in Bethlehem) pointing guns at school children and screaming at them to go home. All the little kids here wear uniforms to school, and all the kids are just so short in these little dresses and sweaters. A…

  • Israeli soldiers opened fire on a small group of children in Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp

    by Kristin Ess Just over an hour ago Israeli soldiers opened fire on a small group of children in Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp. The Israeli occupying army entered the camp, as they do most days and nights, in jeeps,with their tanks rumbling on the side roads. The Israeli soldiers were throwing tear gas into the…

  • Palestinian Bingo

    by Linda Bevis On Dec. 23, several ISM members visited the area where the Israeli forces (IDF) had blocked the road joining the city of Nablus with three outlying villages: Azmut, Salem, and Deir al-Khatab. Besides blocking at least two access roads to Nablus, the army has dug a large, steep moat to keep people…

  • Cracking Bullets, Whizzing Bullets

    by Ed Mast When bullets are fired from two hundred yards away, they make several different sounds. There is always the reverberating report of the weapon being fired. Sometimes there is a buzzing whizz if the bullet passes close enough. If the bullet hits the ground nearby, there is a sharp splat of exploding dirt.…

  • Massive Israeli Settler Attack on Foreign Volunteers in Palestine

    Number of Internationals Injured and Hospitalized [Yanoun, Nablus] Militant Israeli settlers attacked a group of international volunteers working with Palestinians to harvest olives in the olive groves near the Palestinian village of Yanoun. Immediately after a Palestinian operation in the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the Israeli- occupied Palestinian Territories that killed two Israeli settlers…