Tag: Demonstration

  • Bulldozers return to destroy children’s playground in Beit Jala. Six activists arrested.

    International Solidarity Movement 22nd April 2010 Israeli bulldozers today destroyed a garden and children’s playground in Beit Jala, and 100 fruit and olive trees in Al Walaja and Beit Jala, both in the Bethlehem district, to make way for the continued construction of their illegal apartheid wall. Soldiers present used violent force to remove Palestinian,…

  • Gazans fired upon with live ammunition at demonstration

    ISM Gaza 20th April 2010 Israeli army shot several rounds of live ‘warning’ fire at about 150 peaceful protesters who entered the so called ‘security belt.’ This belt consists of 300 meters of Palestinian land alongside the borderline. Israelis enforce a no-go ‘rule’ for Palestinians with lethal weapons. As for the Israeli army, they cross…

  • Spirit of resistance strong in Iraq Burin

    International Solidarity Movement 20 April 2010 Local and international activists broadcast a message of protest against settler and military violence in Iraq Burin last Saturday 17 April, marching to the threatened farmlands that lie between the village and the illegal settlement of Bracha. The demonstration showcased the village’s spirit of resistance, refusing to waver in…

  • All Palestinian political parties will join the 5th Bil’in International Conference on Nonviolent Resistance

    Bil’in Popular Committee 15 March 2010 The Palestinian village of Bil’in will host the next 21-23 April 2010 the conference “Khalas! Enough occupation! We’re winning! 5th Bil’in International Conference on Popular Resistance” All the Secretary Generals of the Palestinian Political Parties will participate in one of the panels of the conference in an unprecedented move…

  • Youth shot in the leg by Israeli Soldiers near the Nahal Oz border crossing

    ISM Gaza 14th April 2010 Mahmoud Shawa a 19 year old resident of Shaja’iyya district of Gaza City, received a wound from a live round in his leg while participating in a peaceful demonstration near Nahal Oz border crossing. Mahmoud was urgently transported by an ambulance to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City bleeding heavily…