• Bil’in Demonstration Remembers Twelfth Death Caused by Wall

    Friday’s Bil’in demonstration was a memorial for the twelfth victim of the apartheid wall. Eyad Taha Salame Taha, a 28 year-old man from Beit Annan, was drowned in a flood caused by the wall in Bil’in on Sunday, April 2, 2006. Grills covering the drainage pipes that in the flash flood formed a dam. Mud…

  • Eleven Children Held Captive by Israeli Army (Digest)

    1. Eleven Children Held Captive by Israeli Army 2. Balata invasion journal Part 1 3. Bil’in Demonstration Remembers Twelfth Death Caused by Wall 4. Separation wall ‘drowns’ Palestinian 5. Everyday resistance 6. The hope for a peaceful solution? 7. Palestinian civilians pay with their lives for IDF’s refusal to publish open-fire regulations 8. Activist’s Journal…

  • Balata invasion journal Part 1

    By Jane On the morning of April 6th I had a call saying the Israeli military have invaded Nablus, would I join 3 others and go? During military invasions the role of ISM is to go with medical teams, try to approach houses the military have occupied to speak with the families held there, bring…

  • Eleven Children Held Captive by Israeli Army

    Nablus, Palestine Eleven children have been held captive by the Israeli army since 5am yesterday morning. They are being held in an apartment on the 8th floor of a building the army has turned into a sniper nest. A young boy, the only captive medical volunteers have been allowed to contact, reported that the families…

  • The hope for a peaceful solution?

    Palestinian and Israeli Activists Demonstrate Together in Bil’in Joel Beinin has written a thought provoking review of Shlomo Ben-Ami’s Scars of War, Wounds of Peace in the April 17th issue of The Nation. It’s well worth reading in full, and Beinin finishes on an optimistic note: Where, then, is the hope for a peaceful solution…