14th March 2010 The Israeli military sent eight jeep loads of soldiers to Iraq Burin, near Nablus, on Saturday to prevent villagers from accessing their farmland. Violent settler attacks on previous Saturdays leave the villagers and their land threatened. The ...
Read More »Thousands attend Sheikh Jarrah demonstration, internationals attacked by riot police
6 March 2010 Thousands attended last Saturday’s demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah, demanding an end to the home evictions which have displaced hundreds of Palestinian residents. Gathering peacefully for speeches and live music in the park opposite the neighborhood, demonstrators chanted ...
Read More »Israeli military fail to crush the spirit of An Nabi Saleh
12 March 2010 The Israeli military today continued their attempts to repress the weekly demonstration in An Nabi Saleh. Following on from their near fatal shooting of a 14 year old boy a week ago, soldiers invaded the village within ...
Read More »Settlers destroy natural spring used by Palestinians for farming near Salfit
International Solidarity Movement 8 March 2010 A group of Israeli settlers today destroyed a spring by the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the Salfit district. The settlers poured sand and cement into the spring, guarded by five armed members ...
Read More »Israeli Forces Critically Injure Boy in An Nabi Saleh
International Solidarity Movement 5 March 2010 Demonstrators in An Nabi Salih were met with tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and sound bombs. The IOF also fired skunk, a putrid-smelling chemical spray. One international was hit with a metal tear gas ...
Read More »Cultivating Resistance: Khirbet Bir al ‘Idd
International Solidarity Movement 27 February 2010 Last week, two small, rural outposts were awaiting two payloads from a 4×4 that was snaking its way along the winding, West Bank roads of the South Hebron hills. The first was the material ...
Read More »Israeli Soldiers Surround Home in An Nabi Salih
International Solidarity Movement 26 February 2010 Approximately 50 Palestinians and 20 Israelis and Internationals gathered in the West Bank village of An Nabi Salih to protest the further appropriation of their land and natural spring by the illegal Israeli settlement ...
Read More »Wanted: Israeli army commander of Bil’in area, Palestine
Bil’in Popular Committee 26 February 2010 Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists demonstrated against the apartheid wall and settlements in Bil’in village west of Ramallah. Despite rain and harsh winds demonstrators marched to the wall and were immediately met with tear ...
Read More »Settler and IOF violence at Sheikh Jarrah erupts into riot
International Solidarity Movement 25 February 2010 One Palestinian man arrested, one woman and child pepper sprayed and two children injured as settler provocation turns into a riot. Spirits were high in the protest camp outside the Gawi and Al-Kurd families’ ...
Read More »The Mountains to An Nabi Salih
International Solidarity Movement 19 February 2010 There was an odd collection of internationals rousing in our media office this morning. We were an eclectic mix of activists from the US, Denmark, France, England, Sweden and Taiwan preparing to head out ...
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