• Iftar Curfew in Deir Istiya follows previous house occupations

    October 7th, 2007 The residents of Deir Istiya, population 4,000, were sentenced to confinement in their homes shortly before breaking fast for the day. At around 5:10 pm, a convoy of between 10 to 12 military jeeps, manned with border police, entered the northern West Bank village near the city of Nablus announcing over megaphones:…

  • Tree planting in Balata and Askar refugee camps, Nablus

    On Saturday, the 29th of September ISM activists planted around a hundred trees in the martyr cemetery at Balata refugee camp in Nablus. Twenty to thirty volunteers from the H.W.C. (Health Work Committee) and the Tanweer Center in Nablus joined in the planting. The Ministry of Agriculture provided the trees. This continues the cooperation between…

  • Non-violent demonstration at Um Salamona

    Last Friday of a group of 70 demonstrators, comprising of Palestinian, international and Israeli activists, gathered near the town of Umm Salamona, south of Bethlehem, to demonstrate against the planned route of the apartheid wall and the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) denying local Palestinian farmers access to their farmland. The demonstration progressed along settler only…

  • Soldiers kidnap children before anti-wall demonstration in Bil’in

    October 5th, 2007 ***This video can seem misleading. The child was not arrested during the demonstration, but one day before. He was released that day but another child, aged 16, was arrested that night, the night before the demonstration.*** On Friday at 1pm after prayers the villagers of Bil’in continued their ongoing protest against the…

  • Settlers attack Local Palestinians and Human Rights Observors in Hebron

    October 4th, 2007 The final day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot descended into violence in Tel Rumeida, Hebron on Thursday, as a group of settlers attacked local Palestinians and two international Human Rights Workers (HRWs). At approximately 1:45pm a large group of settlers, many heavily intoxicated, marched their way up through the Tel Rumeida…