Tag Archives: Jerusalem

By Shlomo Bloom Today I arrived at Qalandia checkpoint on my way to Jerusalem from Ramallah and got in line behind about 15 Palestinians. The line moved at a slow but steady pace until two people showed their IDs to ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today, Friday 19th May at 11.00, Israeli miltary forces violently prevented worshipers from Shufat refugee camp walking to Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray the Friday prayer. Over thirty armed soldiers and mounted officers attacked a non-violent demonstration of ...

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 ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Demonstration at the entrance of Shofat Refugee Camp: Friday 19th May, 10am Worshipers going to Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray the Friday prayer, residents of the Shofat refugee camp and Israeli and International supporters will demonstrate at the ...

by ISM Media Office volunteers Saturday 13th May: Around 800 Palestinian and 200 Israeli and international demonstrators, representing a broad coalition of people, united in a march to call for the dismantling of the Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian town ...

No to Walls and Checkpoints Yes to Negotiation- No to Unilateral “Convergence” A-Ram, Jerusalem, Saturday, May 13th, 11 am In contrast to the Israeli government’s assertion that “there is no partner”, and its program for unilateral annexation, the residents of ...

Residents of Shofat refugee camp in Jerusalem, along with international and Israeli supporters, today demonstrated non-violently against the Israeli Border Polices’ often violent suppression of the camps residents’ right to cross the checkpoint at the camp entrance to pray in ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE From: PLO Mission – Washington, DC A book in the making, help write it An Invitation to Palestinians Across the World Work started on the preparation of an exceptional book with a new concept “Jerusalem in exile ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Residents of the Shofat refugee camp will demonstrate at the checkpoint at the camp’s entrance, protesting the brutal behavior against the residents by the Border Police stationed there and particularly against Palestinians attempting to pray in Al-Aqsa ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE All the protests will begin at 12:00 Villagers of Beit Sira will hold the Friday prayers on their land being annexed along with the Makabim settlement to Israel. Beit Sira has been demonstrating continuously since the destruction ...