Tag: International law

  • Child arrests continue in Hebron

    20th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine UPDATE: Child arrests in Hebron continue today as a 15 year old Palestinian boy, Az Dweik, was arrested in the morning. He was allegedly carrying a knife around the Ibrahimi mosque and taken to the Kiryat Arba police station. The Israeli authorities regularly falsely accuse…

  • Twelve-year-old arrested and blindfolded in Hebron

    20th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine By Team Khalil Ahmed Ibn Bilal Abu Rumeileh, a 12-year-old boy from Hebron, was today arrested in the Old City and detained for over an hour before being released. Ahmed was riding his bike through Bab Al-Baladia when six Israeli soldiers stopped him and arrested…

  • This Palestinian Prisoners Day we remember Bassem Abu Rahma who was murdered four years ago today

    17th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Occupied Palestine By Team Khalil Today is Palestinian Prisoners Day which also marks the 4th anniversary of the death of Bassam Abu Rahma and the 270th day of Samer Issawi’s hunger strike. These two events perfectly illustrate the ongoing perseverance of the Palestinian peoples relentless struggle for peace,…

  • Village of Sabastiya celebrates successful campaign against sewage dumping on their land

    7th April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Occupied Palestine Residents of the village Sabastiya near Nablus have confirmed that the pipe which pumps raw sewage onto their land from nearby illegal settlement Shave Shomron has been shut off. The raw sewage poisoned both olive and apricot trees belonging to the village. The residents of Sabastiya…

  • The occupations toll on one family in Burqa

    1st April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Burqa, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus A brief visit to any family home in the occupied West Bank is sure to be a combination of warmth and tragedy as no person here has been immune to the brutality of the occupation that has dominated the lives of Palestinians…