FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Between 4:30 and 5:00 PM today Israeli snipers shot another ISM activist in the head. Tom Hurndall from Manchester Britain is currently in critical condition in a helicopter on his way from Europa Hospital in Khan Younis ...
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ISM statement on the killing of Rachel Corrie
OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND Our friend and fellow activist for peace, Rachel Corrie, was murdered on Sunday March 16, when she was purposely run over by an Israeli-driven, US-made (Caterpillar D9) bulldozer, while trying to prevent a Palestinian civilian home from ...
Read More »The closest eye witness account on the murder of Rachel Corrie
by Tom Dale March 17, 2003 Many of you will of heard varying accounts of the death of Rachel Corrie, maybe others will have heard nothing of it. Regardless, I was 10 metres away when it happened 2 days ago, ...
Read More »Haaretz: IDF: Death of U.S. activist in Gaza was ‘regrettable accident’
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, and Agencies The killing of an American woman peace protester Sunday by an IDF bulldozer, which ran her over during the demolition of a house at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, ...
Read More »Haaretz: American peace activist killed by army bulldozer in Rafah
By Haaretz Staff IDF expresses ‘regret’; State Department ‘assessing’ reports A 23-year-old American woman, Rachel Corrie, a college student from Olympia, Washington who belonged to the International Solidarity Movement in the territories, was killed yesterday by an IDF bulldozer during ...
Read More »Increased targeting of International Solidarity Movement
In this article Michael Shaik, Media Coordinator of the International Solidarity Movement writes about two recent events with direct bearing on Israel’s murder of Rachel Corrie. On 14 February 2002 the ISM faced two almost simultaneous crisis in Rafah and ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: Until the bulldozers stop
By Uri Ayalon Originally published in Ha’aretz I met M. last month at an Israeli-Palestinian encounter at Neve Shalom. It seemed that most of the Israelis who came to the weekend did so mostly out of curiosity. The Palestinian participants, ...
Read More »God Bless Our Home
A Calm Day in Gaza by Ed Mast We sit on the floor of a pleasantly-colored cinderblock apartment, one of a row of buildings painted in bright Santa Fe colors, in Rafah near the south end of the Gaza Strip. ...
Read More »Letter from Dheishe Refugee Camp
Hi Folks, In the past week since I left, it’s been hard to sit down and put together some thoughts, since new experiences keep happening. Here are a few. The volunteers for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who showed up ...
Read More »Shooting at Kites; Bulldozing Schools
by Sam Messier and Jill Dreier This morning the military pulled out most, but not all, of its presence from Nablus. Though still officially under curfew, many people started coming out into the streets and opening their shops. Internationals, including ...
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