• Awaiting release and hearings of local activists, Kufr Qaddoum met with more Israeli violence

    Awaiting release and hearings of local activists, Kufr Qaddoum met with more Israeli violence

    by Robin and Leila  23 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank It was under a bright, sunny sky that the people of Kufr Qaddoum once again gathered to protest against the roadblock which isolates them from the rest of the West Bank. The past week there had been much frustration and anger since Murad Ashtawi, member…

  • A family’s nightmare: Beaten and kidnapped by illegal settlers near Qadumim as Israeli military facilitates the crime

    A family’s nightmare: Beaten and kidnapped by illegal settlers near Qadumim as Israeli military facilitates the crime

    by Jonas Weber 23 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A family of four was kidnapped by settlers on Thursday afternoon while having a picnic close by an outpost near Qadumim. When soldiers arrived at the scene they chased away the relatives of the kidnapped family with tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets alongside settlers throwing…

  • Video: Civil resistance in Palestine

    22 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank From Nablus, Palestine to New York City, civilians stand up to the forces of order and privilege. Palestinian villagers confront the Zionist military of the State of Israel in Kusra and Kufr Kaddoum villages near Nablus, the occupied West Bank.  The Jewish international opposition expresses its solidarity with the Palestinian…

  • Settlers grab Palestinian water springs: U.N. report

    Settlers grab Palestinian water springs: U.N. report

    by Jihan Abdallah 19 March 2012 | Reuters (Reuters) – Jewish settlers have seized dozens of natural springs in the occupied West Bank, barring Palestinians or limiting their access to scarce water sources, a United Nations report said on Monday. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it had surveyed 530…

  • Rachel Corrie & Hana Shalabi: Flowers among thistles of Israeli occupation

    Rachel Corrie & Hana Shalabi: Flowers among thistles of Israeli occupation

    by Nathan Stuckey 21 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Rachel Corrie was murdered nine years ago by an Israeli bulldozer.  Hana Shalabi has spent the last 34 days on hunger strike an Israeli prison, yet she is accused of no crime.  This was not the first time Hana has been held in Israeli…