Tag: Arrests

  • Update: ‘They are not the same as you’ – detention continues for Kufr Qaddoum prisoners

    By Ben Greene, Ellie Marton, and Anna Conroy 17 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Monday 15th October, Palestinian political prisoners Majd and Abdulateef Obeid appeared before a military court for a third time. Their lawyer argued that, as four international activists arrested at the same time with the same evidence had…

  • Letter from International Activist Under House Arrest in Israel Asking for Support and Solidarity

    September 25, 2012 Dear Friends of Palestine, I am writing to you from an apartment in Tel Aviv where I am under house arrest for standing in solidarity with Palestinians fighting a twelve-year road closure in their West Bank town of Kufr Qeddoum. This weekend, I spent forty eight hours in Israeli prisons. I was…

  • Hebron: Soldiers invade Kurtuba School, attempt arrest

    By Ruby Astaire 26 September | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Israeli soldiers invaded a Palestinian school in the city of Hebron with intentions to arrest two sixth grade students after false allegations of throwing stones at a nearby checkpoint. Israeli soldiers based in the Palestinian city of Hebron entered the Kurtuba school on Sunday…

  • Freedom for Jalaal

    By Anna Conroy 18 September | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Saturday 15th September a group of four internationals from ISM joined the Daraghmah family at their home in al Luban to celebrate son Jalaal’s release from prison. Thanks to many generous donations ISM was able to pay the five thousand shekel bail ($1300)…

  • Israeli Army shoots resident of Nabi Saleh following settler attack

    By Paddy Clark 14 September 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Sunday evening, settlers entered Nabi Saleh village. In clashes that followed Israeli soldiers shot Omar al-Tamini, 25, with live ammunition in the abdomen, and then arrested him and Eyas from inside the ambulance which was taking Omar to Ramallah hospital. On Monday,…