Tag: Jerusalem

  • Shlomo’s Journal: “The Magic Answer”

    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 the soldiers behind the glass and an argument in Hebrew began. It was clear the…

  • Israeli Occupation Forces Violently Suppress Peacefull Protest Over Right to Worship

    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 Shufat refugee camp residents and Israeli and International supporters inside the camp close to the…

  • Three Non-Violent Demonstrations this Weekend: Bil’in, Beit Omar, Shofat Camp

    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 release. In Bil’in the demonstration is against the apartheid barrier, in Beit Omar against an…

  • Palestinians Demand Freedom of Worship

    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 checkpoint at the camp’s entrance. The worships will demand access to Islam’s holy sites and…

  • Non-Violent Demonstration Against the Wall in Ar-Ram Attacked by Israeli Military

    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 of Ar-Ram, just north of Jerusalem. With the participation of schoolchildren, teachers, neighborhood residents and…