• Spirit strong in weekend demonstrations

    International Solidarity Movement 15 June 2010 Al Ma’asara Around 30 Palestinians, Israelis and internationals gathered for the weekly demonstration in Al Ma’asara on Friday June 11th. The participators called for the Israeli government to stop construction of the illegal apartheid wall, which will claim a sizeable amount of the village’s farmland. Village resident Hassan was…

  • Wheat harvest met with live ammunition in Gaza “buffer zone”

    International Solidarity Movement 13 June 2010 Israeli forces attacked women farmworkers and international human rights activists with heavy gunfire during three days’ wheat harvest in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israel-imposed “buffer zone” illegally claims over 30% of Gaza’s arable farmland. In Khoza’a village, east of Khan Yunis, substantial wheat remains unharvested despite severe poverty…

  • Palestinian activist faces prison sentence

    Amnesty International 13 June 2010 Amnesty International has urged an Israeli military court not to convict a Palestinian non-violent activist who has been detained since last July, after he took part in a protest against the Israeli built fence/wall on Palestinian land. Adeeb Abu Rahma has been charged with “being present in a declared military…

  • Operation Dove: Israeli masked settlers attack At-Tuwani Palestinian village

    Operation Dove At-Tuwani – On the morning of Saturday, 12th June 2010, shortly before 11.00, about thirty Israeli settlers from Havat Ma’on oupost, masked and armed with slings and sticks, invaded At-Tuwani village, attacking the most exposed house of the village and throwing stones against Palestinian villagers. The settlers approached the house and soon damaged…

  • Activists disrupt Caterpillar shareholder meeting

    Kristin Szremski | The Electronic Intifada 11 June 2010 While pro-Palestinian activists and supporters of Israel lined opposite sides of South LaSalle Street outside the Northern Trust Building in Chicago on 9 June, James Owens, the outgoing CEO and Chairman of Caterpillar Inc., told a room full of shareholders the company was not responsible for…