Tag: Demonstration

  • Mass protest aims to focus attention on Jerusalem

    16th June 2013 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron and Patrick Strickland | Occupied Palestine Activists demonstrated internationally on Friday as part of efforts to focus attention on Israel’s aggression against Palestinians in Jerusalem. Known as the Global March to Jerusalem, the protests marked the 46th anniversary of theNaksa (setback) — Israel’s 1967 occupation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, Syria’sGolan Heights,…

  • Interview with two Palestinian paramedics: “They don’t care if we are medics or not. They target everything”

    16th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Nabi Saleh , Occupied Palestine M. and A. are two independent paramedics who regularly attend different protests against Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Israeli forces usually respond to Palestinian popular resistance with extreme violence, including the shooting of tear gas canisters, rubber coated steel bullets and…

  • Ni’lin: Words versus the occupation

    14th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Nil’in, Occupied Palestine On Friday, 14 June, around fifteen residents of Nil’in marched toward Israel’s apartheid wall in the latest of it’s regular protests against the systematic confiscation of their land via the wall and five surrounding Israeli colonies. The wall itself is covered in…