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Weekly protests: man shot with live ammunition in Bil’in
26 September 2010 | ISM Media Brutal suppression of the Palestinian popular struggle continues: A Palestinian man was shot in the leg with live ammunition in Bil`in, while live rounds were also fired in Ni`lin and An-Nabi Saleh, where rubber-coated steel bullets were fired at children. In Beit Ummar a Palestinian man was beaten unconscious by Israeli forces yet only an innocent French peace activist was arrested for assault. Demonstrators marched around the Old City in…
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French human rights activist arrested at West Bank protest
26 September 2010 | ISM Media Beit Ummar, West Bank French activist Bruno de Ginestet-Puivert, 21, was arrested by Israeli authorities on Saturday 25 September demonstrating alongside Palestinians in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar, near Hebron. He is believed to be charged with assaulting an officer, though witnesses say this allegation is completely baseless. The regular weekly demonstration protests against the Israeli occupation, and against the theft of Beit Ummar’s land by the illegal…
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PROTEST CALL: oppose the OECD’s Tourism Conference in Jerusalem October 20-22nd
The International Solidarity Movement is calling on activists to protest in Jerusalem in the third week of October against the annual tourism conference of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) which should not be held in the occupied capital of an apartheid state in violation of a plethora of international laws. >>>>> ISRAEL IN THE OECD: Despite Israel’s persistent violation of human rights as protected by the law, the OECD – whose member countries…
