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Neither threats nor murders will stop our demonstrations
by Nathan Stuckey 4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Over the weekend Israeli planes dropped flyers over Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia warning that anyone who approached within three hundred meters of the border would be shot. It is not as though the people don’t know of this policy. As the following conversation between Israeli soldiers makes clear, this has been policy for many years. The soldiers in this conversation are discussing the murder…
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Video: Israeli military shooting directly at press in Kufr Qaddoum
by Axel 4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday the 30th of March the weekly demonstration was held in the village Kufr Qaddoum outside of Nablus. This day was however the same day as the Global March to Jerusalem, meaning less media attention than normal, and also less internationals present as most of the activists attended the demonstrations in Qalandiya, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem. To further minimize attendance, the Israeli soldiers had set…
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They shoot the youth don’t they?
by Johnny Bravo 4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On March 30, 1976, the Palestinian people declared a general strike and demonstrated against the Israeli confiscation of thousands of acres of land in the Galilee. The Israeli’s responded with violence, killing six unarmed Palestinian demonstrators and injuring hundreds. Every year Land Day is commemorated in Palestine in remembrance of those who rise up to protect their land. On this Land Day, I was at…
