• Remembering Art Gish

    1 August 2010 American peace activist Art Gish died on Wednesday in a tractor accident on his organic farm in Athens, Ohio, at the age of 70. Gish and his wife Peggy – currently in Iraq – dedicated much of their lives to promoting peace in the Middle East through nonviolent action. As a member of the Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT) based in Al Khalil (Hebron) in the West Bank, Gish lived up to the CPT’s…

  • Wadi Qana farmland being polluted by settlement sewage

    31 July 2010 | ISM and IWPS (International Women’s Peace Service) Wadi Qana is a valley south west of Nablus where numerous springs supply water to the surrounding Palestinian villages. Approximately 60 people live in the valley itself, and many more own land in the area in which they farm animals and cultivate both citrus and olive trees. The valley and its springs have been suffering from the effects of raw sewage, which has been leaking…

  • British student injured by Israeli army illegally firing tear gas canisters at protesters

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: British student injured by Israeli soldiers illegally firing tear gas canisters directly at protesters An Nabi Saleh, West Bank 31 July 2010 A British student was injured yesterday (30 July 2010) when she was hit in the leg by a tear gas projectile fired directly at her, when Israeli soldiers violently repressed a peaceful protest in the West Bank. Ellie Kidd, 23, from North London, is currently unable to walk due to the…

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