• Kufr Qaddoum drives back Israeli soldiers at weekly demonstration to re-open road

    Kufr Qaddoum drives back Israeli soldiers at weekly demonstration to re-open road

    by Aaron 21 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The mood was celebratory following the weekly protest this Friday in Kufr Qaddoum, after demonstrators succeeded in pushing back Israeli soldiers for the second week in a row. The goal of the protest was to open the main road to regional population center of…

  • George Orwell meets Mel Brooks in detention of international activist

    by Jack English 20 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The ongoing repression of international activists took a turn for the ridiculous on Thursday night in Al Khalil, also known as Hebron. At approximately 7:30pm on January 19th, an activist approached a military checkpoint en route to his apartment, where two soldiers on duty,…

  • Further into the No Go Zone

    Further into the No Go Zone

    by Nathan Stuckey 19 January 2012 Every Tuesday we gather next to the half destroyed Beit Hanoun Agricultural College.  At eleven o’clock, we set out into the no go zone.  This week there were about thirty of us, members of the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative, the International Solidarity Movement, and other activists from Gaza.  At…

  • Eight homes ordered to be demolished in Khalit Al-Dar

    Eight homes ordered to be demolished in Khalit Al-Dar

    by Jack English 17 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On January 4th, an Israeli military commander served 8 demolition orders in the town of Khalit Al-Dar, just south of the city of Al-Khalil, also known as Hebron. The reason given for issuing demolition orders to the families is that they have built…

  • Israeli army complicit in settler car-burning

    by Sarah 17 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Sunday, the 16th of January, at approximately 2 AM, about fifty settlers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, entered the Abu Haikal family’s field in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeideh in Hebron. After throwing stones at the family’s house, they savagely burnt the car of…