• Rachel Corrie trial: stopping bulldozer work not an option despite risk to protesters

    11 April 2011 | Rachel Corrie Foundation Deputy Battalion Commander says avoiding precedent influenced decision not to stop. Two Israeli military officers who commanded troops near Rafah, Gaza on the day Rachel Corrie was killed, took the stand behind a screen in a Haifa court Wednesday, April 6, as government witnesses in the ongoing civil lawsuit Corrie vs. the State of Israel. Their testimony further underscored the failure of the Israeli military to recognize the rights,…

  • 14 year old girl taken in the latest wave of Awarta arrests

    11 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Saturday night the Israeli army once again raided Awarta, putting the village under curfew for the fifth time since the murder in the illegal settlement of Itamar on 11th March. Awarta is situated next to Itamar and has endured a constant military presence for a month now. According to the village mayor Qays Awwad, 23 people were arrested in the latest night raids; 20 males and three females.…

  • The sharp end of Hebron

    11 April 2011 | Issa Amro Hebron’s problems began after 1967. The Israeli army worked hard to create the Kiryat Arba settlement, and after that the settlers and soldiers started living inside Hebron, transforming it into an occupied city. We started to feel it when they created settlements in the heart of the city. In the early 1980s settlers started to come from all over the world, moving into our houses and markets. They treated Palestinians…

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