Tag: Live Ammunition
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Violence in Ni’lin
14th June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah team | Ni’lin, Occupied Palestine A Red Crescent paramedic, present at the Ni’lin demonstration last week, spoke to ISM about the protest last Friday, 6th June. He explained that the demonstration began as the protesters marched towards the apartheid wall, with Israeli soldiers firing tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets. After just 15…
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Palestinian murdered by Israeli forces in Huwarra
4th June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Huwwara, Occupied Palestine In the late hours of Monday evening, Israeli forces executed 30-year-old, father of two, Alaa’ Mohammed ‘Awadh, at Za’tara checkpoint, in southern Nablus. The Israeli army claimed that a Palestinian gunman was shot dead after he injured an Israeli police officer in the leg. The villagers of…
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Photo story: Palestinians protest the deaths of two martyrs
17th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Ofer, Occupied Palestine On the 16th May, Palestinians protest on the road to Ofer prison, following the murder of two Palestinian youths on the same road on the previous day during the Nakba Day protest. The youths, 22-year-old Muhammad Audah Abu al-Thahir and 17-year-old Nadim Siyam Nuwarah, were…
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Two more martyrs as the Nakba continues
16th May 2014 | International Women’s Peace Service | Occupied Palestine In commemoration of the 66th annual Nakba day, hundreds of Palestinian youth from the Ramallah district moved against Israeli soldiers outside of Ofer prison in Beitunya. Soldiers retaliated with tear gas, live ammunition and rubber coated steel bullets. During the clashes, soldiers killed two demonstraters, aged seventeen…
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What will Gaza’s Ark face from the Israeli navy as it challenges the blockade?
17th April 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine The heavy bang is heard clearly, and I have to resist the impulse to climb over the breakwater to try to get a view of the attack in the haze. And a new round of bangs is heard. It can’t be far off…
