International Solidarity Movement 27 March 2010 In recent weeks there has been an escalation of Israeli military violence against the weekly demonstration in the village of An Nabi Saleh, which last week led to 25 injuries, as well as attacks ...
Read More »Palestinian organizer tortured in Israeli jail
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 23 March 2010 Omar Alaaeddin from the village of alMa’asara was nabbed from the Container Checkpoint on Sunday the 14th. He was released yesterday with no charges pressed against him. Alaaeddin reports having been tortured in ...
Read More »Demonstration in front of United Nations HQ Gaza
ISM-Gaza 22 March 2010 To mark the International Water Day, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) organised a demonstration in front of United Nations Head Quarters in the Gaza Strip. Approximately 100 farmers and representatives of various civil society ...
Read More »Second youth from Iraq Burin dies overnight
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 21 March 2010 Ussayed Qaddous, 19, who struck in the head with live ammunition and critically injured passed away in the Rafidya hospital in Nablus this morning. Qaddous was shot during a military incursion to his ...
Read More »Israeli Army Kills 16 Year Old Demonstrator Near Nablus
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 20 March 2010 Mohammed Ibrahim Qaddous, 16, was shot dead with live ammunition when a Border Police force raided his village of Iraq Burin near Nablus to quash a demonstration this afternoon. Another 16 year old ...
Read More »ISM volunteer shot, hospitalized; ISM co-founder arrested
19 March 2010 UPDATE: Huwaida Arraf released on 20 March after being illegally under arrest for 31 hours. Eight of these hours were spent standing in the cold in the illegal Halamish settlement. During this time she witnessed the border ...
Read More »Bil’in and Ni’lin demonstrate in the face of closed military zone orders
International Solidarity Movement 19 March 2010 The smell of tear gas hung over the villages of Ni’lin and Bil’in today. The shouts demanded an end to apartheid and access to farmlands. The odd and surreal status quo was maintained this ...
Read More »Israel’s repression leaves dozens wounded in Jerusalem
International Solidarity Movement 17 March 2010 In reaction to the blanket West Bank closure and Israel’s severe limitation of entrance into Al-Aqsa Mosque, demonstrations spread through Jerusalem. Police and soldiers used percussion grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets and physical assaults ...
Read More »Nil’in commemorates year anniversary of Tristan Anderson shooting: two arrested
13 March 2010 On Friday, March 13th, the one year anniversary of the critical injury of international activist Tristan Anderson, approximately 100 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals gathered for the weekly demonstration in Ni’lin to claim justice for Tristan. Anderson, a ...
Read More »Israeli Army: Bil’in and Ni’lin a Closed Military Zone for a Six Month Period
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 14 March 2010 One week after the head of the Israeli Shin Bet threatened to aggravate the repression of the Palestinian popular struggle, a large military force raided the villages of Bil’in and Ni’ilin at 3:30AM ...
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