• Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem slams West Bank separation fence

    By The Associated Press http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/656456.html The top Roman Catholic official in the Holy Land planted an olive tree Sunday on the planned route of Israel’s separation barrier in a West Bank village and prayed for the wall’s removal, saying it is serves no purpose. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, visited the barrier in…

  • “Love is possible in spite of all the evil we experience”

    photo by AP 11 December 2005 Despite an Israeli checkpoint that prevented journalists from accessing the village, a peaceful march of one thousand people, Christians and Muslims, went forward on Sunday in the West Bank Village Aboud. The march was stopped by Israeli soldiers three hundreds meters from bulldozers digging up Abud’s land to construct…

  • IOF Continues Harrasing Jayyous Villagers

    By ISM local contact Today, 11th December 2005, at 2:30am, the IOF troops invaded the west bank village of Jayyous. They searched houses and arrested theVice President of the Jayyous municipality, Mr. Issam Muhammad Hassan Shbaita. Mr. Shbaita is known as a local human rights activist for his work that coordinated with international organizations that…

  • While Our Friends Are Kidnapped in Iraq, Palestinian Non-violent Resistance Continutes

    1. The Power of Aboud 2. Resistance Continues in Aboud, Despite Israeli Violence 3. A brief list of numbers from today’s demo in Aboud 4. Human Rights Worker Refuses Deportation, Put in Solitary Confinement in Tzohar Detention Center, Israel 5. Scotish TV: “Scottish activist to be deported from Israel” 6. Scotish Press: “Israel Ready to…

  • The Power of Aboud

    by Mansour The villagers of Aboud have taken up a campaign of nonviolent resistance against the Israeli Aphartied wall which will steal agricultural land, olive trees and water resources. On the second demonstration there, we touched the core of Palestinian popular resistance. The whole village decided that the popular movements that lead the first Palestinian…