Tag: Jerusalem

  • Israeli forces assault 7 year old Palestinian in Silwan

    26 November 2010 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center Israeli forces assaulted 7 year old Adam Mansour Rishq during tense scenes in Silwan today. The child was beaten by Israeli troops who accused him of throwing stones at a military vehicle, who then attempted to arrest the youth but were stopped by residents who flocked to…

  • Wave of demolitions in Jerusalem, Jordan Valley and South Hebron

    25 November 2010 | ICHAD & Al Jazeera Following the demolitions and evictions in East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley yesterday, this morning the Civil Administration accompanied by large Army and Border Police forces demolished a mosque in the Jordan Valley and several structures in the South Hebron Hills. Yesterday the Ministry of Interior demolished…

  • ISM activists protest the OECD conference in Al Quds

    This weekend the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conference was held in Jerusalem, despite pressure from human rights groups for it to be held elsewhere or not at all. After their insistence on holding the conference here, ignoring Israel’s blatant violations of international law and colluding with their aspirations to claim Jerusalem as…

  • Turkey will not attend OECD conference, minister says

    12 October 2010 |ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Turkey will not send any delegation to a biannual tourism conference in Israel later this month, the country’s culture minister said Tuesday, marking the first boycott of Israel on a multilateral level since a deadly raid on a Turkish aid ship in May. Culture and Tourism Minister…

  • PROTEST CALL: oppose the OECD’s Tourism Conference in Jerusalem October 20-22nd

    The International Solidarity Movement is calling on activists to protest in Jerusalem in the third week of October against the annual tourism conference of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) which should not be held in the occupied capital of an apartheid state in violation of a plethora of international laws. >>>>> ISRAEL…