• What is Behind Allenby Bridge… (Digest)

    1. Um Salamuna: Defending the Land 2. Bil’in: Continued Repression 3. Nablus: 75 Olive Trees Planted Successfully in Iraq Burim 4. Israeli Soldiers Shoot Dead Palestinian Child in Hebron; Body Mauled by Military Dog 5. Tel Rumeida: Walking Down Shuhada Street 6. Back to Jail for Anti-Nuclear Activist 7. Tel Rumeida: Detention at the Ibrahimi…

  • Um Salamuna: Defending the Land

    July 6th, 2007. At around 11:00, 60 Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists gathered in the trees in Um Salamuna above the place where the apartheid wall is to be built. There were Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on the hill across from us, watching while we happily wasted their weekend time. Palestinians and internationals gathered to…

  • Bil’in: Continued Repression

    July 6th, 2007. This afternoon, in the West Bank town of Bi’lin outside of Ramallah, approximately 70 demonstrators attempted to approach the annexation barrier which snakes through Palestinian land. The peaceful protesters included Palestinian members of the community, Israelis, and international observers from the International Solidarity Movement and the Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. Though the…

  • Nablus: 75 Olive Trees Planted Successfully in Iraq Burim

    By the ISM Media Team July 5th, 2007. Iraq Burin, a village in the Nablus region, has been suffering from increasing harassment by the neighboring illegal colony of Brakha. Villagers, many of whom are farmers, have owned the land for generations and are being frequently threatened by armed colonists. Beatings and shootings of farmers who…

  • Israeli Soldiers Shoot Dead Palestinian Child in Hebron; Body Mauled by Military Dog

    Palestinian National Initiative Ramallah, 04-07-07: Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian child carrying a toy gun in Hebron yesterday. 15-year-old Ahmad Abed Al-Muhsin Skafi was shot 4 times in the upper body by Israeli soldiers who then allowed a military dog to maul the body, tearing the boy’s intestines from his stomach and mutilating his…