• Israeli army takes seven boys and young men from Marda village.

    By: Nijmie, IWPS Date of incident: July 4, 2005 Place: Marda, Salfit district Witness/es: Marda residents, IWPS On the afternoon of Monday July 4, the Israeli army entered the village of Marda with approximately eight jeeps. They proceed to round up youths they accused of throwing rocks at soldiers who were guarding the building of…

  • OPEN THE MAS’HA GATE – A Call to Action

    PLEASE, MAKE PHONE CALLS AND/OR SEND FAXES: (This is an example which gets to our attention. Getting one gate for one village opened is worth a few minutes of your time — and it DOES work sometimes – no less than participation in protests on the ground. Sometimes even more!) – Adam Keller & Beate…

  • ICAHD: “Where shall I go now?”

    A wave of house demolitions in East Jerusalem Lucia and Angela of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (www.icahd.org) Again yesterday, houses were demolished in East Jerusalem. In the early morning the bulldozers moved into the neighborhood of Isawiyya, where they demolished a gas station. Then, they moved towards the neighborhood of Tel al Ful…

  • The day after

    ISM Nablus July 4th It’s several days since the Israeli army’s large daylight invasion of Nablus and the surrounding refugee camps. While there is much speculation, there has been no official word on the reason for the operation. What can be said with certainty is that it was clearly not within the terms or the…

  • Letters from Rafah

    Written by K and M Special greetings again from Rafah. There is just no way to describe life here at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. We are the only International people in all of Rafah and the news has traveled fast and everyone knows we are here. This afternoon all of us, along…