• Shooting at Kites; Bulldozing Schools

    by Sam Messier and Jill Dreier This morning the military pulled out most, but not all, of its presence from Nablus. Though still officially under curfew, many people started coming out into the streets and opening their shops. Internationals, including the two of us from Colorado, purchased several bags of food to distribute to families…

  • Two Days in Bethlehem

    by Chris and Carl Our affinity group members, Mike, Ronise (who is deaf) and Jennie went to the Deaf School in Bethlehem. The school serves boys and girls from 6 months to 15 years old. It was a well equipped modern school run by the Catholic Church. The school is currently closed because of the…

  • Report on Recently Demolished Homes in the Tubas Region

    Prepared by: Members of the International Solidarity Movement in Al-Fara’ Refugee Camp. Town of Ak-Kaaba: Masri Home Ezzeddine Masri was a member of Hamas who made an operation killing himself and 22 israelis at the Sbarro restraunt in West Jerusalem on August 9th 2001. His action was in retaliation to an attack on a Hamas…

  • Internationals Help Deliver Food & Stop Bullets

    By Jill Dreier What the UN refuses to do in Palestine: Internationals Help Deliver Food & Stop Bullets ‘No here we have nothing to live for, so we don’t care, but YOU, you have to return to tell the world what is happening here, so YOU take care” So, before I get started about yesterday,…

  • Leaving Balata

    by Amanda D. I’m on the plane home. Much as I want to see people I’m not sure how to talk to them. Much as I wanted to go home and do laundry and take a bath I’m figuring out how and when I can get back. I was sad yesterday to leave the family…