Tag: Video

  • 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 of the Israeli military. Palestinians from the village were forced to watch helplessly as events…

  • Activists work to stop wall construction and uprooting of olive trees in Beit Jala

    Beit Jala Popular Committee 4 March 2010 In the early morning on March 2, 2010, Israeli bulldozers started uprooting ancient olive trees in the garden of a Palestinian family in the town of Beit Jala, North-West of Bethlehem, in order to make room for the construction of yet another section of the Apartheid Wall. Wednesday…

  • 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’ houses. Each Wednesday the community gathers for a meal, bridging the gap between the Palestinian,…

  • Bil’in village plants 200 trees next to apartheid wall: existence as resistance!

    Bil’in Popular Committee 22 February 2010 At 9:30am residents of Bil’in village, Palestinian political representatives, and International activists gathered in Bil’in to plant olive trees and almond seeds for 20 farmers who own land besides Israel’s Apartheid Wall. Approximately 200 trees were planted as part of the ongoing popular resistance to the Israeli apartheid wall…

  • Peaceful Al Ma’sara Demonstration Faces Continued Aggression

    International Solidarity Movement 19 February 2010 The peaceful demonstration in the Occupied West Bank village of Al Ma’sara by Palestinians and Internationals was aggressively dispersed using tear gas & sound bombs, today, by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). This is the second week that the IOF have been using increasingly violent methods to repress non-violent demonstrations…