International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After three consecutive days of numerous acts of settler violence in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, the IDF and Police are doing very little to stop or arrest settlers who violently oppose the removal of settlers from the illegally ...
Read More »Scottish ISM-activist Forcefully Deported From Israel After 7 Weeks in Prison
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 3:00 in the morning to Friday, ISM-activist Andrew Macdonald was forcefully deported from Israel, 7 weeks after being abducted from Palestine by the Israeli Border Police. Still refusing to comply with the State of Israel’s policy ...
Read More »Hebron Disengagement And Violence Begins; Settlers Attempt to Occupy Palestinian Home
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A mob of 30 female settler teenagers rampaged through Tel Rumeida on Thursday, January 12. Ten of them wore black ski masks to hide their identities, and attacked everyone they encountered, including IDF soldiers and Israeli police, ...
Read More »Settlers of South Hebron Region Destroy Olive Trees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the morning of Friday, January 6th, the village of Jwaya, near Tuwani in the southern region of the West bank, awoke to find one hundred and twenty of their olive trees cut down. The trees were ...
Read More »Who’s Afraid of Human Rights Observers?
Israeli soldiers violate court order and close off Palestinian homes, assault Human Rights Workers, confiscate cameras and destroy film in Tel Rumeida, Hebron A human rights worker was filming the Israeli army’s violation of a recent Israeli court order to ...
Read More »Deadline extended, fears continue for safety of hostages
Originally published in CBC News Kidnappers holding four members of a Christian aid group in Iraq, including two Canadians, have extended their deadline. The militants now say Britain and the United States have until Saturday to meet their demands or ...
Read More »A Week of Palestinian Calls for the Release of the CPT Volunteers Held Hostage in Iraq
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Ramallah, Occupied Palestine] Over the last week Palestinians from across the political spectrum have issued impassioned appeals and demonstrated for the release of the four Christian Peacemaker Team volunteers who were taken hostage in Iraq, three of ...
Read More »Statement by the National Committee to Resist Settlement and the Wall on the CPT Hostages in Iraq
The Palestinian National Authority The National Committee to Resist the Wall and Settlement Office of the Coordinator of the Committee Ramallah, Palestine November 30, 2005 A PLEA TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE From Palestine we call upon you to release the ...
Read More »Statement by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Palestine on the CPT Hostages in Iraq
From your brothers in arms, the sons of the same blood who have suffered from one enemy, to the fighters against the invaders in Iraq, at a time when we are engaged in one battle against a single unjust plan ...
Read More »Statement by the Palestinian National and Islamic Forces in Hebron on the CPT Hostages in Iraq
In the name of God, the Compassionate and Merciful “O ye who believe! If a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly, and afterwards become full of repentance for what ye ...
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