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UPDATE – Freedom for international activists!
30th October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank UPDATE: 2nd November 2012 Great news – Elyana and the other international activist have been released! Thank you so much to everyone who made a donation to make this possible. The judge ruled that their detention and the attempted deportation was illegal which sets an excellent precedent we hope to carry in future cases. Israeli authorities must be shown that they do not have a license to…
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Night raid on family – two Palestinians abducted in Shuhada Street, Hebron
30 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At approximately 2am Israeli occupation forces climbed down from the roof at the back of a family complex on Shuhada street to apprehend student Abed Al Salayma, age 20. Abed was blindfolded and led from his home a short time thereafter while his distraught mother remonstrated with the soldiers. Thirty minutes later his mother Jamille Hassan Shalaldh, age 50, was handcuffed, arrested and taken away. After the…
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Picking olives in a cage
Journal by Ellie Marton 25 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank I spent Tuesday inside a cage. Not my usual way to spend a sunny Tuesday – but for the Palestinian farmers I was with, this is routine. This is because their land happens to be near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel – in fact, it is in the Israeli imposed ‘buffer zone’ between the largest settlement in the West Bank and…
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