Tag: Arrests
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Israeli soldier to activists who were detained near Beit Ommar: “I could kill you.”
11 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Saturday June 11 three International Solidarity Movement activists were stopped by the Israeli army when trying to enter the village of Beit Ommar in the southern West Bank. The activists were going to participate in a non-violent demonstration against the illegal settlements in the area. As the…
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Random arrests and assaults during and after Nakba day in Hebron
29 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Several teenage boys were arrested after the 15 May Nakba Day demonstration in Hebron. On May 24 the International Solidarity Movement met one 16 year old boy and his father to hear his story. The boy had been on his way home from work at around 6 pm…
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Three members of ISM arrested during peaceful demonstration in Iraq Burin
28 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement This afternoon three members of the International Solidarity Movement were arrested during a peaceful demonstration in Iraq Burin. The activists from the UK, Denmark and Iceland had joined the villagers in protesting the loss of their land to the illegal Israeli settlement of Bracha, however the demonstration had…