Tag: Arrests

  • Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah cleared of stone-throwing; convicted of incitement

    24 August 2010 | Popular Struggle Protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rhamah from Bil’in was convicted of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations today, after an eight months long military trial, during which he was kept behind bars. He was acquitted of a stone-throwing charge and a vindictive arms-possession charge. Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s verdict was read today…

  • Storm over Israeli ‘abuse’ photos

    16 August 2010 | Al Jazeera A former Israeli soldier has sparked controversy after posting pictures of herself posing with bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners on the internet. Eden Abergil uploaded photographs into a folder entitled “Army- the best time of my life” on Facebook. They show her posing provocatively with the men, prompting lurid…

  • Army violently attack Hebron demo again – yet only an innocent British peace activist is charged with assault

    15 August 2010 | International Solidarity Movement On Saturday Palestinians were joined by internationals and Israelis in their weekly demonstration, asking for the opening of Shuhada Street and responding to the closure of three shops in the old city earlier in the week. The Israeli army, represented by soldiers and border police, entered from the…

  • Israeli army close down shops opposite Shuhada street in Hebron

    11 August 2010 | ISM Yesterday, August 10th, between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon, in response to peaceful Palestinian resistance to the military occupation of Hebron – and ongoing settler violence – the Israeli army decided to collectively punish Palestinian shopkeepers in the Old City. They had been threatening for weeks to close certain…

  • Al-Walaja village resists construction of the Apartheid Wall

    4 August 2010 This morning in Al-Walaja local Palestinian residents supported by Israeli and international solidarity activists nonviolently resisted the construction of the Apartheid Wall by blocking the work of a bulldozer. Of the sixty protestors, fourteen people were arrested – six Palestinians and eight internationals. Three were also injured as Israeli police forcefully and…