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, ...
Read More »In Photos: Palestinians unite to support prisoner hunger strike
12 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank and Gaza On Tuesday the 27th of September, an open-ended hunger strike was initiated until the fulfillment of 9 demands by Palestinian prisoners, which include the right to family visits, end to ...
Read More »Beit Ummar steadfast in supporting prisoners despite LRAD and teargas
7 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the tenth day of the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, a crowd of around a hundred people took to the streets for a planned demonstration in the ...
Read More »Broken wrists and arrests by Israeli military as farmers cultivate Beit Ummar
10 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Supporting Palestinian farmers in Beit Ummar, international activists joined the weekly Saturday activities–clearing the land for cultivation despite the harrassment of Israeli military and illegal settlers, which resulted in the injury ...
Read More »“Price tag” campaign a pattern more than a phenomenon
15 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The so called “price tag” campaign is regarded to be a product of the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar, yet the price tag to Israeli occupation and fanatical land grabbing is ...
Read More »Attempts to tend to farmland result in arrests
13 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 12th of July 2011, 4 ISM members with a group of international activists, including Israeli, French, Belgian, Portuguese and a 5 Palestinians attempted to enter the illegally, occupied farmland of a ...
Read More »‘Welcome to Palestine’: Israeli court challenges deportation orders
13 July 2011 | Welcome to Palestine Bethlehem and Jerusalem, July 13, 2011. Court dates have been set for noon today and tomorrow at 9 am for the court challenges of “Welcome to Palestine” participants against the deportation orders of ...
Read More »Palestinian man still under arrest after demonstration in Beit Ommar on Saturday
29 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Two international activists are released following their arrest and court hearing in Jerusalem, while a Palestinian man is still under custody following a peaceful demonstration in Beit Ommar that occurred on June 25th. ...
Read More »Israeli forces arrest three in Beit Ommar demonstration
25 June 2011 | Palestine Solidarity Project On Saturday June 25, about 50 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists gathered in Beit Ommar to demonstrate against the Israeli Karmei Tsur settlement, which has annexed hundreds of dunams of Palestinian land. As ...
Read More »Beit Ommar in “defiance of instruction”
18 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On June 18 2011 the weekly Beit Ommar demonstration proceeded towards a fence which encircles the nearby settlement of Karmei Tzur and separates the village from some of its land. A number of ...
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