• UPDATED Action Alert: Help free Hanan, arrested at Bil’in 10th anniversary demonstration

    UPDATED Action Alert: Help free Hanan, arrested at Bil’in 10th anniversary demonstration

    4th March 2015 | International Solidarity Movement | Bil’in, Occupied Palestine Update March 2015: The Israeli prosecution appealed Hanan’s bail. She is still currently imprisoned. Her bail now needs to paid this Sunday, March 6. We have now raised 519 shekels, but she needs much more in order to be able to go home on Sunday. ******* On February…

  • A decade of civil disobedience in my West Bank village

    A decade of civil disobedience in my West Bank village

    2nd March | Abdallah Abu Rahma – originally posted on Haaretz | Bil’in, Occupied Palestine On February 20, 2005, we, residents of the West Bank Palestinian village of Bil’in, set forth, accompanied by supporters from around the world, and marched to the west side of the village. Israeli army bulldozers had begun uprooting olive trees there and wiping out the place…

  • Four Palestinians and one female German demonstrator shot with live ammunition at “Open Shuhada Street” protest

    Four Palestinians and one female German demonstrator shot with live ammunition at “Open Shuhada Street” protest

    28th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On February 27 in occupied Al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces fired live ammunition towards nonviolent protesters participating in the annual Open Shuhada Street demonstration, injuring five including four Palestinian activists, one of them 17 years old, and one German citizen. More were also injured by rubber-coated steel bullets…

  • Dancing children attacked by Israeli forces

    Dancing children attacked by Israeli forces

    25th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On the 24th of February in occupied Al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces opened fire on dancing Palestinian youth, firing tear gas and throwing stun grenades at group of young children performing a traditional Palestinian dance as a form of protest in front of Shuhada checkpoint. The fifteen…

  • “If you don’t open the door in 5 minutes, we will blow it up”

    “If you don’t open the door in 5 minutes, we will blow it up”

    24th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine 

During the night of the February 22nd, Israeli occupation forces raided two homes belonging to the Edies family, in the Al-Khalil (Hebron) neighbourhood of Tel Rumeida. At least thirty soldiers invaded the homes of Yahya Edies and Saleh Edies at around 2:30 am on Sunday morning.…