26th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Al Masara, Occupied Palestine Yesterday, Friday 25th October, over a hundred non-violent protesters, half of them internationals from more than a dozen countries all over the world marked the seventh anniversary of ...
Read More »Al Ma’asara demonstrates the meaning of peace
by Ramon Garcia 9 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The people of Al Ma’sara gathered after praying time to march to their land, confiscated for the nearby illegal settlement. Approximately 70 internationals were present, most of them ...
Read More »Al Ma’asara: House on the seam of looming Apartheid Wall becomes center for peaceful resistance
by Aaron 14 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank There is a place where a ground-level concrete line runs beside a country road through olive orchards, grape vines, blossoming almond trees, and homes—all Palestinian. This is the projected ...
Read More »Israel to demolish two houses near Bethlehem
28 January 2012 | WAFA News Agency Israeli forces delivered home demolition notices to two Palestinian homeowners in al-Ma’sara, a village south of Bethlehem, under the pretext that they were built without a permit in an area under full Israel ...
Read More »Al Ma’asara refuses the road to illegal settlement activity
10 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank This weeks’ demonstration in the village of Al-Maasara was attended by approximately forty peaceful protesters with twenty Palestinians and twenty internationals. As always during the protests in Al Ma’asara the protesters were ...
Read More »New Israeli military tactic: Headbutting in Al- Ma’asara
by Alistair George 28 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Israeli military violently obstructed a peaceful demonstration against the Israeli separation wall in Al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, today. Around 25 Palestinians and a similar number of international observers ...
Read More »Interviews from Al Ma’asara resistance
13 June 2011 | Al Masara Resistance Interview with Hasan Brijia, a member of the Popular Struggle Committee I am Hasan, 43 years old and father of 7 children. I currently work in the Ministry against settlements and the Wall, ...
Read More »Israeli bulldozers destroy farmer’s land in Al Ma’asara
30 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Yesterday private Israeli bulldozers arrived in the village of Al Ma’sara in the West Bank and destroyed a section of farm land belonging to the Brijia family, uprooting five grape trees and an ...
Read More »Teen critically injured as Israel cracks down on Nakba demos
13 May 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Updated 14 May 2011: Milad Ayyash died of his injuries reported below. 17 year-old was critically injured from live fire in East Jerusalem. An American protester suffered serious head injury after being ...
Read More »Israeli forces attack weekly West Bank demonstrations
22 October 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Today in the village of An-Nabi Salah, the weekly non-violent demonstration took place against the illegal settlement Hamish. Unlike other villages taking part in non-violent resistance, many women, young girls and children participate ...
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