Category: Reports
-
Struggle for the return of land in Iraq Burin continues
12 October 2009 Iraq Burin has achieved the first success of its kind, in which the District Co-ordination Office has entered into an agreement with the village to return 30 dunums of contested farmland to its rightful owners. It comes on the heels of four fiery weekly demonstrations, where local protesters and international activists came…
-
ISM Nablus visits Linan Yosif Abo Gholbi on her release from prison
5 October 2009 On Monday, October 5, 2009, a group of ISM’ers visited Linan Yosif Abo Gholbi in her extended family’s home near Nablus, at the invitation of Tanweer, a grass roots organization based in Nablus. She is one of the 20 women prisoners who were recently released from Israeli prisons in exchange for a…
-
East Jerusalem: military checkpoints prevent Palestinians from entering the Old City and Al-Aqsa
9 October 2009 During the week leading up to 9 October, the Old City of Jerusalem and particularly the Muslim Quarter, were practically under siege and strict control of the Israeli armed forces. For the whole week there was a checkpoint at Damascus Gate which prevented Palestinian men from entering the Old City. Damascus Gate…