International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom.
ISM Gaza 14th April 2010 Mahmoud Shawa a 19 year old resident of Shaja’iyya district of Gaza City, received a wound from a live round in his leg while participating in a peaceful demonstration near Nahal Oz border crossing. Mahmoud ...
Read More »Israeli army fires at peaceful protesters in Al Atatra border area, North Gaza
ISM Gaza 10th April 2010 This demonstration, which took place on the 6 April, is one of several weekly demonstrations happening in different places alongside Gaza’s border with Israel. They are held in protest against the arbitrary decision by Israel ...
Read More »Live Ammunition Fired at Nonviolent Demonstrators in Ni’lin
International Solidarity Movement 9 April 2010 Facing tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition, roughly sixty Palestinians gathered outside of Ni’lin today. Joined by 15 Israeli and International activists, the demonstrators protested the Israeli occupation which has claimed over ...
Read More »Gaza residents commemorate Land Day at Nahal Oz border crossing
ISM Gaza 30 March 2010 Palestinians in Gaza came out in large numbers for demonstrations commemorating Land Day, including one at Nahal Oz border crossing, east of Gaza City. In attendance were around 300 Palestinians and three ISM members. Unlike ...
Read More »Fisherman shot in the head and critically ill in Shifa’a Hospital in Gaza
ISM Gaza 25 March 2010 Fisherman Hazem Gora’ani, age 26, from the town of Deir Al Balah, south of Gaza City, was brought to Shifa Hospital with serious head wounds around 9 o’clock this morning. An urgent operation lasting one ...
Read More »Second youth from Iraq Burin dies overnight
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 21 March 2010 Ussayed Qaddous, 19, who struck in the head with live ammunition and critically injured passed away in the Rafidya hospital in Nablus this morning. Qaddous was shot during a military incursion to his ...
Read More »Growing protests in the Gaza Strip against the imposition of the buffer zone
12 March 2010 Deep dissatisfaction with the Israeli policy of preventing access to the 300 metre belt along the border have resulted in a rise in number of weekly protests in Gaza and a significant increase in the number of ...
Read More »Israeli forces invade Bil’in following Friday demonstration, shoot live ammunition
16 January 2010 Eight demonstrators were injured today in Bil’in along with dozens who suffered tear-gas inhalation during a regular Friday protest against the Wall and subsequent army invasion into the village. The army used live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets ...
Read More »Your Palestinian Gandhis exist… in graves and prisons
Alison Weir | Counterpunch 8 January 2010 Dear Bono, In your recent column in the New York Times, “Ten for the Next Ten,” you wrote: “I’ll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that…people ...
Read More »Illegal settlers and Israeli military attack Palestinian non-violent demonstration against settlement expansion
International Women’s Peace Service 8 January 2010 On January 8, villagers from the Palestinian village of An Nabi Saleh (population approx 500), located in the north of the Ramallah district, held its third demonstration in three weeks against creeping settlement ...
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