Tag: Checkpoint

  • Playground for bombed kindergartens in Gaza

    For Immediate Release: Sunday 7th June, 10:00, Erez checkpoint More than 750,000 children are incarcerated without a trial in Gaza – the largest prison in the world. It is forbidden to send toys and playground equipment into Gaza. The Israeli authorities define even paper and crayons a “Security Hazard”. In defiance of this obituary and…

  • Israeli soldiers detain and harass Hebron residents at checkpoint

    30 May 2009 Harassment of Palestinians at checkpoints happens regularly in the West Bank. Several of the abuses against Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in Hebron were documented by international solidarity activists from the ISM. On the afternoon of 26th of May, Israeli border police stopped five young Palestinian men in a temporary checkpoint in the…

  • UN: Little change in problems with Palestinian movement in West Bank

    Tovah Lazaroff | The Jerusalem Post 26 May 2009 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said little had been done in the past nine months to ease movement and access for the Palestinians in the West Bank. According to a closure survey it completed in March 2009 and released on Tuesday,…

  • Israeli forces raid Tel Rumeida homes

    25 April 2009 On the evenings of the 23rd & 24th April, Israeli soldiers entered the homes of Palestinian residents in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron. During these illegal raids the houses were searched and the families harassed before the soldiers left with no evidence of law infringement of any kind. On Thursday 23rd…

  • Freedom Summer 2009: Defend the Land and Jerusalem

    The International Solidarity Movement is issuing a call-out for internationals to volunteer as field activists and office workers in the West Bank, Gaza, and occupied East Jerusalem this summer. Whether you can come for only few weeks or several months, your presence is needed to support Palestinian communities who are nonviolently resisting the Israeli occupation.…