FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Youth from the Tel Rumeida settlement spat on, beat, assaulted, and stoned human rights workers from Canada, Denmark and Sweden yesterday (May 27, 2006). In three separate attacks on internationals and Palestinians the kids were encouraged by ...
Read More »Villagers of Jab’a to Work Their Land After Settler Vandalism
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Over two days, Thursday the 25th and Friday the 26th of May, the villagers of Jab’a, south-west of Bethlehem will attempt to access and work their land, from 9am till 3pm.The villagers will bring agricultural equipment to ...
Read More »How Many Escorts Does it Take to Get 3 Children Home?
“When are we going to get a reality show in Tel Rumeida?” by Shlomo Bloom HRWs (the two women in vests) try to escort Palestinian kids (left) through a razor wire fence while settlers (background) and Israeli activists (foreground) look ...
Read More »Successful Land-Access Action in Beit Omar
Sunbula’s Journal: “Settler Brats and Weed Pulling” 20th May: From Jerusalem to Beit Omar, you need to change taxis three times in order to get there, partly because of two Israeli checkpoints. It is a small village outside Hebron (al-Khalil) ...
Read More »Successful Wire Cutting Action in Beit Omar
Today, May 17, two international and one Israeli human rights activists joined a small group of Palestinian farmers in their non-violent action of cutting up 50 meters of a 500 meter long barbed wire fence. A fence the Israeli army ...
Read More »Canberra Times: “The Other Aussie Heros”
posted in the Canberra Times May 18th Every Friday for the last fifteen months Palestinian farmers from the West Bank village of Bil’in and their Israeli and international supporters have marched out of the village to reach their lands on ...
Read More »Three Non-Violent Demonstrations this Weekend: Bil’in, Beit Omar, Shofat Camp
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This Friday, the Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Shofat refugee camp, near Jerusalem, will all hold non-violent demonstrations against the Israeli occupation. Beit Omar will hold their demonstration on Saturday, not Friday as stated in a previous ...
Read More »Palestinian Village to Hold Demonstration Against Israeli Land-Grab
IMPORTANT: This action will take place on SATURDAY and NOT on Friday as was incorrectly mentioned in a previous version of this press release. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 9 am this Saturday villagers from Beit Omar in the Hebron region ...
Read More »The Double Standards of the Israeli Army
“I Am Not a Good Jew”: Israeli Soldier Brutality and Incompetence An editorial by a human rights worker in Hebron Israeli settler children throw rocks while soldier does nothing Yesterday I went to the demonstration in Bil’in which started out ...
Read More »Shabbat+new soldiers+settlers=ouch!
By Mary, a 75 year-old ISM volunteer in Tel Rumeida Shabbat, new soldiers and violent settlers make a very unpleasant day. At 11am, I was at the Tel Rumeida crossing waiting for children to come from the Qurduba school. The ...
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