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Beit Ummar collectively punished for peaceful demonstration
15 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank October 14th was the seventeenth day of the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. People took to the streets for a solidarity demonstration in the village of Beit Ummar, Hebron. This is the second such demonstration in this village, a similar march last week […]
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Palestinian hunger strike continues despite Israeli prisoner swap
14 October 2011 | The Real News Network Thousands are demanding better treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the release of prominent activists
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The lonely olive tree of Bil’in
14 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Near the concrete wall which separates Bil’in from Modiin Illit colony, occupied by ultra-Orthodox Jews, there is an olive tree. It is impossible to know how it survived the construction of the wall and how it continues to resist to the lack of a few cares that the specie demands – a lack caused by the Israeli barbed wire fence that prevents the access of the residents […]