5 September 2010 | ISM Media Al Ma’sara At around midday on Friday, thirty demonstrators including around ten international and Israeli activists, met to protest against land-theft by the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat and against the illegal military ...
Read More »Why Israel imprisoned my best friend
2 September 2010 | Mohammed Khatib, The Electronic Intifada When I was a boy I was still allowed to travel in Israel. I went to the beach and swam in the sea, something that most Palestinian children living in the ...
Read More »400 days and counting: nonviolent Bil’in activist Adeeb Abu Rahmah to remain incarcerated
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 September 2010 Ramallah, WEST BANK A military court of appeal yesterday (1st Sept. 2010) rejected a petition calling for the release of Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a leading activist from the West bank village of Bil’in, imprisoned in ...
Read More »Abdallah Abu Rahmah: Know the facts and act now for the freedom of a nonviolent freedom fighter
27 August 2010 The West Bank village of Bil’in has become a symbol of the wider popular resistance movement in Palestine. Abdallah Abu Rahmah, head of Bi’in’s Popular Committee, is one of many key organizers of peaceful resistance that Israel ...
Read More »Criminalizing peaceful protest: Act up for Abdallah Abu Rahmah
25 August 2010 | Popular Struggle UPDATE: Baroness Ashton condemns Bil’in leader’s conviction; Attorney: “International community must take a tough stand on human rights defenders.” Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee, was yesterday convicted of incitement ...
Read More »Criminalization of peaceful protest continues: More arrests at weekly demonstrations
23 August 2010 | ISM Media Bil’in The weekly demonstration in the village of Bil’in this week saw protesters draw attention to the recently published photos of the abuse of Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli army. A handful of the ...
Read More »Successful outcome in Swedish peace activist’s legal appeal against Israeli sentence banning him from Palestine
20 August 2010 On Thursday 12 August 2010 Swedish peace activist Marcus Regnander’s legal battle with the Police Department of Hebron ended successfully. His appeal against a sentence which banned him from the West Bank for six months, after being ...
Read More »Live ammunition used on demonstrators in Gaza who move a section of the buffer-zone fence
18 August 2010 | ISM Gaza On Tuesday morning a demonstration in Gaza by Palestinian activists from Local Initiative Beit Hanoun, with four International Solidarity Movement volunteers and other international activists and journalists was met with live ammunition fired by ...
Read More »West Bank demonstration reports
An Nabi Saleh – 13/8/2010 On Friday around 35 Palestinians demonstrated against Hallamish settlement with around 15 Israeli and international peace activists in the village of An Nabi Salih. When the peaceful demonstration started, as usual after the noon prayer, ...
Read More »Army violently attack Hebron demo again – yet only an innocent British peace activist is charged with assault
15 August 2010 | International Solidarity Movement On Saturday Palestinians were joined by internationals and Israelis in their weekly demonstration, asking for the opening of Shuhada Street and responding to the closure of three shops in the old city earlier ...
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