• ISM turns ten

    ISM turns ten

    7 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement- Northern California As one of the co-founders of the International solidarity movement (ISM) I often refer to ISM as my first baby. Well, my first baby is now an independent unruly and uncontrollable ten-year-old and I am one proud Mama. But I am one of ISM’s many proud…

  • Kufr Qaddoum marches forward despite threats of violence

    Kufr Qaddoum marches forward despite threats of violence

    by Alex 7 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At noon on the 6th of January, 2012, a demonstration was held in the village Kufr Qaddoum, located just outside Nablus. The people gathered after the Friday-prayer and started marching along the main road that runs through the village. This road was, until the…

  • 6 January 2009: Al-Dayah family

    6 January 2009: Al-Dayah family

    6 January 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “The bodies of nine of those killed were not found, including the bodies of my wife and my children. I tried my best with the civil defense personnel to find their bodies. All we found were pieces of flesh that were unidentifiable.” On 6 January 2009,…

  • 5 January 2009: Amal al-Samouni

    5 January 2009: Amal al-Samouni

    5 January 2012 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “I have constant pain in my head, eyes and ears. I have been having nose bleeds for the past three years. I can still feel the shrapnel move inside my brain” On 4 January 2009 at around 6:00 Israeli forces surrounded the house where Amal al-Samouni (11)…

  • 4 January 2009: The Abdel Dayem family

    4 January 2009: The Abdel Dayem family

    4 January 2012 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “I was told initially that Arafa had been injured in an Israeli strike. Of course I was concerned, but many people get injured in his line of work and what was important is that he was still alive. I learnt only fifteen minutes before Arafa’s body arrived…