Tag: Ramallah

  • Residents of Deir Jreer and Silwad resist occupation and settlement expansion

    10th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Deir Jreer and Silwad , Occupied Palestine By Team Ramallah At around 9 am today, 150 Palestinians, accompanied by International activists, went to Deir Jreer lands to construct a new road so that local farmers could reach their lands more easily. Two bulldozers flattened the path from the…

  • Palestinian villages protest together against illegal settlement outpost

    26th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Silwad, Occupied Palestine Around six hundred Palestinians along with a small number of international and Israeli activists participated in today’s demonstration in the lands between Silwad and Deir Jreer, in protest against both settler violence and settlement expansion. A new illegal outpost of Ofra settlement consisting of several…

  • 2 shot with live ammunition at Ofer prison demonstration

    15 February 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Ofer Prison, Occupied Palestine A demonstration was held outside Ofer prison in Ramallah as part of a week of action in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners, and in particular to protest the continued detention of Samer Assawi who is on his 207th day of hunger strike whilst being…

  • Nabi Saleh: “The resistance is for our kids’ future”

    By Markus Fitzgerald 15 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the evening of July 26, social media lit up with messages from residents of the village Nabi Saleh. “Four army jeeps and around 20 soldiers standing at the entrance” tweeted Manal Tamimi, and later, “for the third day (in a [row]) the…

  • Nabi Saleh: 11 arrested in weekly demonstration

    By Hakim M. 16 July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh faced brutal repression from the Israeli military on Friday, July 13. Beginning at 1:30 p.m., Palestinian and solidarity activists walked down the village road to find it closed off by Israeli border police and a ‘skunk’ tank,…