Tag: Child Arrest
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Mapping a pattern of Israeli violence in Burin
13 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The pattern of settler and military invasion of Burin, a village near Nablus, is what locals and internationals are mapping to brace themselves for more property damage, violence, and threats by nearby illegal settlements and hardcore adherents to the volatile “Price Tag Campaign.” If the pattern…
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Palestinian activist to judge: I do not recognize your rules
20 February 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bassem Tamimi from Nabi Saleh testified yesterday as part of the defense’s case in the ongoing trial against him. Tamimi, suspected of protest related charges, was arrested on March last year, and remains in detention since. After 11 months in an Israeli jail, Bassem Tamimi, a prominent…
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5 Palestinian fishermen arrested by Israeli Navy, one of them a 13 year old boy
by Rosa Schiano 16 February 2012 | il Blog di Oliva In the past few days five Gazan fishermen have been arrested by the Israeli Navy off the north coast of Gaza. Adham Mahmoud Abu Ryada, 22, and his brother Mohammed Mahmoud Abu Ryala, 13, were both arrested on Sunday evening. Jamal Ramadan Al Sultan, 58…
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Hebron: At least 10 children arrested by Israeli military in one week
by Satu Gustafsson 11 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The extreme Golani Unit of the Israeli military is escalating its arrests of Palestinian children in Al Khalil (Hebron), targeting boys between the ages of 12 to15 years old with at least 10 reported cases of child arrests made just in the span…
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Al Ma’asara refuses the road to illegal settlement activity
10 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank This weeks’ demonstration in the village of Al-Maasara was attended by approximately forty peaceful protesters with twenty Palestinians and twenty internationals. As always during the protests in Al Ma’asara the protesters were confronted by a line of Israeli soldiers who refused to allow the Palestinians cross an…
