• New women’s center hosts educational Nakba commemoration event

    17th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Asira Al-Qibliyyah, Occupied Palestine Team Nablus A new women’s center in Asira Al-Qibliyyah hosted an event for women and children in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe.” Local women and children watched a short video of a Palestinian woman from Al-Kahlil (Hebron) speaking…

  • 13 year-old boy shot and beaten by settlers, leg broken

    13 year-old boy shot and beaten by settlers, leg broken

    16th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Qaryut, Occupied Palestine At about 2pm on 16 May, a 13 year-old boy was shot at and beaten by settlers; he broke bones in his leg running from the shots at him and from being beaten. After falling, the boy was threatened with his life…

  • Military presence at Hebron schools – regular updates

    7th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Khalil | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Regular updates on harassment of Palestinian schoolchildren by Israeli military in Hebron monitored by the International Solidarity Movement. 27th May: Today, Israeli soldiers continued their harassment of Palestinian youth on their way to and from school. Due to exams, several classes of…

  • Right of Return still key – Nakba Day demonstrations violently suppressed by Israeli forces

    Right of Return still key – Nakba Day demonstrations violently suppressed by Israeli forces

    15th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine By Team Ramallah The 15th May marks the 65th anniversary of the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and the destruction – and massacre in some cases – of more than 500 Palestinian villages by Zionist forces in 1948. 65 years on, the…

  • Sawiya night attack by settlers sees property damaged and graves vandalized

    15th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, As Sawiya, Occupied Palestine By ISM Nablus In the early hours of Monday morning, a group of Zionist settlers from the Eli and Rechalim colonies attacked the Palestinian village of As Sawiah, east of Salfit. At about 3am, As Sawiah’s residents were sleeping as settlers attacked, first targeting…