Compiled by The Guardian 23-year-old American ISM activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying a home owned by the Nasrallah family in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. What ...
Read More »ISM Statement on British Suicide Bombers
ISM Media Office [This statement is provided here for historical accuracy. For an updated statement on this incident, please see the Frequently Asked Questions page.] The International Solidarity Movement supports non-violent resistance to the illegal and brutal occupation of Palestine. ...
Read More »ISM Rafah Statement on the Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On 11 April 2003, 10 members of the International Solidarity Movement in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine, were planning to set up a tent in an area that an Israeli tank often uses to shoot into the houses ...
Read More »Israeli soldier shoots British ISM activist Tom Hurndall in Gaza
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Between 4:30 and 5:00 PM today Israeli snipers shot another ISM activist in the head. Tom Hurndall from Manchester Britain is currently in critical condition in a helicopter on his way from Europa Hospital in Khan Younis ...
Read More »CNN: Israeli bulldozer kills American protester
RAFAH, Gaza (CNN) — An Israeli bulldozer killed an American woman Sunday who had been protesting its use to destroy Palestinian houses in Rafah. The woman, Rachel Corrie, 23, of Olympia, Washington, was taken to a hospital, where she died ...
Read More »ISM statement on the killing of Rachel Corrie
OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND Our friend and fellow activist for peace, Rachel Corrie, was murdered on Sunday March 16, when she was purposely run over by an Israeli-driven, US-made (Caterpillar D9) bulldozer, while trying to prevent a Palestinian civilian home from ...
Read More »Haaretz: IDF: Death of U.S. activist in Gaza was ‘regrettable accident’
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, and Agencies The killing of an American woman peace protester Sunday by an IDF bulldozer, which ran her over during the demolition of a house at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, ...
Read More »Increased targeting of International Solidarity Movement
In this article Michael Shaik, Media Coordinator of the International Solidarity Movement writes about two recent events with direct bearing on Israel’s murder of Rachel Corrie. On 14 February 2002 the ISM faced two almost simultaneous crisis in Rafah and ...
Read More »One Hundred Rounds of Warning Shots and a Very Long Walk
by Carla Read Carla’s first journal from Mawasi here. The next day we did accompany Palestinians down the road that used to lead into Mawasi (that now stops at a checkpoint guarding the new settlements) carrying medical supplies. At least ...
Read More »God Bless Our Home
A Calm Day in Gaza by Ed Mast We sit on the floor of a pleasantly-colored cinderblock apartment, one of a row of buildings painted in bright Santa Fe colors, in Rafah near the south end of the Gaza Strip. ...
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