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1 January 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Doctors at the Ramallah hospital fought for Jawaher Abu Rahmah’s life all night at the Ramallah Hospital, but were unable to save her life. Abu Rahmah suffered from severe asphyxiation caused by ...
Read More »IDF resumes use of prohibited tear gas canisters
8 December 2010 | Ha’aretz, Chaim Levinson The canisters, which are used to disperse demonstrations in the West Bank, have been responsible for serious injuries and at least one death Israel Defense Forces soldiers recently resumed the use of ...
Read More »High-velocity tear gas canisters and skunk water used in assault on Nabi Saleh demonstration; 18-year-old to undergo surgery
20 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Yesterday, 19th November, the weekly demonstration in An Nabi Saleh was again met by violent opposition from the Israeli Army. One young villager is scheduled to undergo surgery to insert a platinum implant ...
Read More »Weekly Demonstration Report — High Velocity Tear Gas Canisters used in an Nabi Saleh
14 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Al Nabi Saleh demonstrators assaulted with high velocity tear gas canisters and rubber bullets The weekly demonstration at Al Nabih Saleh took place again this Friday, one day after the six year anniversary ...
Read More »Weekly Demonstrations: Friday, 29 October 2010
29 October, 2010 | International Solidarity Movement 22 people injured, 5 still in hospital, at increasingly violent An Nabi Saleh Demonstration by Henni Many shebab, two journalists and a girl were injured on Friday at the weekly demonstration in An ...
Read More »Weekly demonstrations: children cry as cops clash with clowns in Al Ma’asara
1 and 2 October 2010 | ISM Media Al Ma’asara On Friday afternoon, around 50 protesters, including some 10 international and Israeli activists, gathered in the village of Al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, to demonstrate against the theft of village land by ...
Read More »Settler guard murders Palestinian in East Jerusalem; police fire gas at his funeral
23 September 2010 | ISM Media On the morning of Tuesday 22 September a privately-hired Israeli settler security guard shot and killed a Palestinian man in the neighbourhood of Silwan in Palestinian East Jerusalem (Al-Quds). The killed man, Samer Sarhan, ...
Read More »Armed settler guards attack mosque in Wadi Hilweh, shots fired at Palestinian residents
26 August 2010 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center Violence has swept through Wadi Hilweh again as Israeli settler security guards attempted to storm the neighborhood mosque last night, in what marks the third time such an attack has been launched ...
Read More »Emily Henochowicz: artist turned pro-Palestinian activist
21 August 2010 | The Guardian Jewish-American Emily Henochowicz recalls how she lost an eye at a protest in Israel after the storming of the Gaza aid flotilla As a student artist, Emily Henochowicz has always been fascinated by the ...
Read More »Emily Henochowicz speaks out: art student shot with tear gas canister interviewed on Democracy Now!
6 August 2010 | Democracy Now! Emily Henochowicz speaks out: art student who lost her eye after being shot by Israeli tear gas canister in West Bank protest discusses her life, her art, and why she plans to return JUAN ...
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