Tag: Tear Gas
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VIDEO: Israeli forces fire tear gas and stun grenades at children in Hebron
21st May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine This morning in al-Khalil (Hebron), several children threw stones towards Checkpoint 29 on their way to school. At approximately 07:40, 13 Israeli soldiers and border police officers entered through the checkpoint and fired four tear gas grenades and four stun grenades at the children. The…
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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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Nakba Day demonstration in Al Walaja: “Al Walaja is one of the symbols of the past and present displacement”
16th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Al Walaja, Occupied Palestine Yesterday 15th May, villages from Al Walaja marched for their right of return, on a day marking the 66th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic). The demonstration was met with violent repression from Israeli forces with many tear gas canisters fired…
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Video: Protest on World Press Freedom Day: “They don’t consider Palestinian journalists to be journalists.”
3rd May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team| Occupied Palestine Yesterday, Saturday 3rd of May was the United Nations World Press Freedom Day. Yesterday, journalists celebrated, remembered, and protested, on a date commemorated worldwide since 1992. In Palestine, the 3rd of May calls for a protest by members of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), and yesterday this…
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Israeli forces shoot tear gas into houses in Awarta village
20th April 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team| Awarta, Occupied Palestine On the 20th of April, five Israeli jeeps entered the village of Awarta. The Israeli forces broke into four houses and shot several tear gas and stun grenades inside the houses, leaving several families with no other alternative than to sleep elsewhere until…
