Ma’an – December 10, 2015 HEBRON – A group of Israeli extremists prevented Palestinian children from going to school in the southern occupied West Bank’s Hebron city on Thursday, the director of the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Education Hebron office told Ma’an. Bassam Tahboub said Anat Cohen, a well-known extremist who frequently harasses Palestinian residents […]
By Barbara Erickson | TimesWarp | December 9, 2015 Since the beginning of December at least 10 Palestinians have died at the hands of Israeli security forces. Only one of these deaths has received brief mention in The New York Times; the rest have been deemed unfit to print. During this same period, no Israelis died […]
Israeli soldiers and the flying checkpoint outside the village International Solidarity Movement | December 7, 2015 Hebron, occupied Palestine – Palestinians living in the Israeli militarily occupied West Bank face discrimination, racism and humiliation at the hands of Israeli forces on an everyday basis. Humiliation is entrenched in every aspect of daily life under the […]
MEMO | December 7, 2015 Private US donors are massively funding Israeli settlements by using a network of tax-exempt nonprofits, which funnelled more than $220 million to West Bank settlements in 2009-2013 alone, a Haaretz investigation has found. The funding is being used for anything from buying air conditioners to supporting the families of convicted […]
International Solidarity Movement | December 6, 2015 Al-Khalil, Occupied Palestine – The 22nd of November, one month after the passing away of Palestinian activist and dear friend of the ISM, Hashem Azzeh, the team of al-Khalil (Hebron) visited his widow, Nisreen. Nisreen with her late husband, Hashem Azzeh. Photo credit: Global Research While sitting in […]
Benzi Gopstein holds a noose at a Lehava meeting shared on social media (Twitter/@ronnie_barkan) IMEMC News | December 6, 2015 The right-wing Jewish group ‘Lehava’ held a protest outside of the YMCA in Jerusalem, shouting at Palestinian Christian children and families as they were entering and leaving the annual Christmas-tree decoration party. Lehava is a […]
International Solidarity Movement | December 3, 2015 Hebron, Occupied Palestine – Israeli forces closed the al-Hareka neighbourhood putting up new roadblocks and completely closing off a whole neighbourhood in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). The neighbourhood’s access to the main street has been blocked off with an iron gate for a long time already. Recently, a group […]
International Solidarity Movement with IWPS | November 30, 2015 Deir Istyia, Occupied Palestine – Deir Istyia, in Salfit district, is a village of 4000 inhabitants who mostly live on agriculture. The Salfit district has 19 villages and 24 settlements. Land confiscation is ongoing in the area and many of the settlements are growing, as the […]
International Solidarity Movement | November 28, 2015 Madama, Occupied Palestine – Earlier today, November 28th, a group of Israeli illegal settlers, in the presence of three Israeli soldiers, threatened to burn down a family in the village of Madama, occupied West Bank. At noon, 25 settlers from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar trespassed the land […]
Al-Manar | November 23, 2015 A Palestinian man stabbed and killed an Israeli woman on Sunday, after occupation police and settlers shot and ran over a Palestinian girl on the same day. The attack took place near the so-called Gush Etzion block of settlements south of al-Quds. The Palestinian attacker was shot dead by occupation […]
