16th March, 2009 | ISM Gaza Strip Every year we remember 16th March. We remember a kind, insightful, talented person committed to the plight of the Palestinian people, who genuinely had the courage of her convictions. Her name was Rachel ...
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6 Years Later: Remembering Rachel Corrie
On this day six years ago, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers in Rafah, Gaza. By now the story is well known: Rachel, standing in front of the home of a doctor and his family in hopes of preventing ...
Read More »Thoughts on the Death of Rachel Corrie
David Bromwich | Huffington Post Today is the sixth anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, she was run over by an armor-plated Caterpillar bulldozer, a machine sold by the ...
Read More »Statement from the family of Rachel Corrie
We thank all who continue to remember Rachel and those who, on this sixth anniversary of her stand in Gaza, renew their own commitments to human rights, justice and peace in the Middle East. The tributes and actions in her ...
Read More »Guardian: Israelis ‘firing live rounds’ at West Bank protesters
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian Israeli armed forces and border police used the cover of the war against Hamas in Gaza to reintroduce the firing of .22 rifle bullets – as well as the extensive use of a new model ...
Read More »Two shot with live ammunition at Ni´lin prayer demonstration
January 23, 2009 On Friday, 23 January 2009, the residents of Ni’lin gathered with international and Israeli solidarity activists in their continued resistance against construction of the Apartheid Wall. Around 100 demonstrators participated in the weekly Friday prayer demonstration, a ...
Read More »“The soldiers occupy our house every day there is a demonstration at the checkpoint of the village”
6th January 2009, Ni’lin village The Ameera family suffers the occupation of their house every time there are demonstrations at the main road of Ni’lin. Soldiers usually come in the morning and do not allow the family to go out ...
Read More »Please support ISM Palestine’s work in Gaza and the West Bank
***Please circulate widely*** Dear Friends, Volunteers with the ISM from various countries are right now in Gaza, witnessing, documenting and reporting on the Israeli massacre that started December 27. They arrived on the Free Gaza Movements boats that have repeatedly ...
Read More »In the Shadow of Gaza
By Tara While the world watches in horror as the death toll in Gaza continues to rise, in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army is taking the opportunity to unleash a level of deadly force, in the knowledge that, ...
Read More »Fourth youth killed by Israeli army in West Bank
Mofid Saleh Walwil, a 20 year old resident of Qalqiliya, was killed by Israeli forces at approximately 1pm on Sunday 4th December, making him the fourth Palestinian to be killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank in the ...
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