Tag: Video
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Israeli forces raid Bil’in, arrest one resident and one solidarity activist
For Immediate Release: On July 7th at 3:30, soldiers disrupted the tranquility of Bi’lin by forcing their way into several houses. Israeli soldiers came with a list of 10 names for arrest . When Palestinian, international, and Israeli activists arrived at the scene they were subjected to violence and intimidation by the Israeli forces. The…
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Ni’lin demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall
3 July 2009 On Friday after the midday prayer, Palestinian residents, with the support of international and Israeli solidarity activists, gathered to demonstrate against construction of the Apartheid Wall in Ni’lin. Demonstrators gathered and marched to the Apartheid Wall, where several cut away razor wire that runs alongside the Wall. Six jeeps were already at…
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Al Jazeera interview with Mairead Maguire
Free Gaza Movement 5 July 2009 The Israeli prison guards are denying the right for Mairead to access her medicine. Continue to email and call Mark Regev and Shlomo Dror and express your outrage over the treatment of the FreeGaza21 while they are imprisoned. The women have no access to their luggage or their clothing.…
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Letter from an Israeli jail, by Cynthia McKinney
Free Gaza Movement 4 July 2009 This is Cynthia McKinney and I’m speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies – and even crayons for children, I had a suitcase full of…
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Israeli incursion in Al Faraheen
ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 1 July 2009 Israeli forces have entered the village of Faraheen this morning and are still currently there using bulldozers to destroy farmland. According to local villagers there are now 2 graders, 4 tanks, 2 tanks armored with canons, 2 tractors and 4 bulldozers on the farmland. The army…