Tag: Jenin

  • Night of Israeli violence: Al Aqsa Mosque barricade, house demolition, gang beating, arrests

    22 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Just after midnight on Monday, August 22  the Israeli military took the opportunity to trap 1500 Palestinian youth inside al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, blow up a house in Hebron (injuring 30 people in the ensuing riots), and arrested a member of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin.…

  • Israeli military forces attack the freedom of theatre

    13 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp has faced targeted repression by the Israeli Army in recent weeks.  At 3pm on August 6th, 2011, Israeli Occupation Forces arrested a Freedom Theatre actor at the Shave Shomeron checkpoint on his way from Ramallah to Jenin.  Rami Awni…

  • Green Palestine marks Nakba day

    19 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement With the creation of Israel in 1948, four hundred and eighteen Palestinian villages were wiped out and destroyed, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people from homes they had lived in for generations. This year on May 17, in further commemoration of the Nakba (the Catastrophe), the ISM…

  • Mourning Juliano Mer-Khamis

    Jeff Halper | Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions The ICAHD family mourns the tragic slaying of Juliano Mer-Khamis The ICAHD family mourns the tragic slaying by masked gunmen of our friend and comrade Juliano Mer-Khamis in Jenin. Juliano was a major figure in the struggle for a just peace and the forging of a new…

  • Israel begins expanding settlement in Jenin

    Saturday, October 16th, 2010 | Ma’an News Agency JENIN (Ma’an) — Israel began large-scale digging works on Saturday in preparation for the expansion of an illegal settlement in the northern West Bank district of Jenin. Residents of the Ya’bad village, on which the Shaqed settlement is built, said bulldozers entered on Saturday and began razing…