by Shahd Abusalama 25 December 2011 | Palestine from My Eyes When I was a very young girl, I used to climb the window and stretch my arm out, trying to collect some rain in my small hand, then sip ...
Read More »“Only one half of me is free, but the other half is still there, locked up behind Israeli bars”
by Shahd Abusalama 13 November 2011 | Palestine from My Eyes In a nice restaurant overlooking Gaza’s beach, beneath a full moon with a beautiful halo surrounding it, I sat with my new friends who recently were released from Israeli ...
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 »House Demolition: Jab’a resident insists he will rebuild again
10th October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank. On 10th October 2011 at 5am Israeli forces demolished a family home in the village of Al Jab’a, about 15 km southwest of Bethlehem. The owner, Sheikh Nasri, was farming his ...
Read More »Olive trees destroyed outside Bethlehem
31 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement This morning Maher Abu Sab’a’ discovered that 248 out of the 250 olive tree saplings that had recently been planted on his land had been destroyed over-night. The saplings which had been planted ...
Read More »Bloody Nakba Day; 16 killed, 400 injured as Israeli troops attack protesters
16 May 2011 | Palestine News Network As protests commemorating Nakba ended on Sunday night sources confirmed that Israeli military attacks on those protests left 16 killed and 400 injured. Israeli troops attacked Nakba protests in several parts of the ...
Read More »Military Judge Criticizes Police; Releases the Bethlehem Ten
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 01 April 2010 Judge Dahan of the Ofer Military Court in the West Bank ordered the release of the ten peaceful demonstrators arrested in Bethlehem last Sunday, among them PLO Executive Committee’s Abbas Zaki. The judge ...
Read More »Racial Discrimination By Israeli Police: Bethlehem Peaceful Protesters Still Detained
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 29 March 2010 While the Israeli and international protesters detained in Bethlehem yesterday have been released, the police extended the arrest of the ten Palestinians, including PLO Executive Committee Member, Abbas Zaki, by 96 hours under ...
Read More »15 Arrested in Bethlehem Demo incl. PLO Executive Committee Member
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 28 March 2010 Israeli forces arrested 15 demonstrators, including Abbas Zaki of the PLO Executive Committee, during a Bethlehem demonstration to mark Palm Sunday and protest Israeli restrictions on movement. An AP photographer and four members ...
Read More »Activists work to stop wall construction and uprooting of olive trees in Beit Jala
Beit Jala Popular Committee 4 March 2010 In the early morning on March 2, 2010, Israeli bulldozers started uprooting ancient olive trees in the garden of a Palestinian family in the town of Beit Jala, North-West of Bethlehem, in order ...
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