Photo by ISM International Solidarity Movement | September 20, 2014 Occupied Palestine – On the 17th of September, under heavy Israeli army protection, Israeli settlers from nearby illegal settlements entered Nablus with the aim of praying at Joseph’s tomb in Balata refugee camp. Just after midnight, the Israeli army closed the district that surrounds the […]
Operation Dove | September 15, 2014 At Tuwani – On September 14th, two Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian shepherd and two international near the Israeli outpost of Mitzpe Yair, in the South Hebron Hills area. During the aggression, the settlers stole video cameras from the internationals and broke one of their phones. Israeli police detained […]
Another incident of nationalist crime in the village of Yasuf, but the media only paid attention to the unimportant part: the graffiti By Yossi Gurvitz | Yesh Din | September 3, 2014 Atallah Yassin Muhammad Gouda lives in the village of Yasuf, which has known quite a few attacks by Jewish felons; perhaps the most […]
Palestine: a journal of everyday occupation | August 30, 2014 After lunch, which is usually at around 4pm, we decided to go to Wadi Fukin to visit family. I’ve written before about the village which sits directly east of the 1949 armistice line, more commonly referred to as the Green Line. Each time we visit, […]
Al-Akhbar | August 28, 2014 Israel on Thursday approved a further stage in plans to build a nine-story Jewish seminary in the heart of a densely-populated Palestinian neighborhood near Jerusalem’s Old City. According to the Peace Now settlement watchdog, the committee threw out an appeal tabled by a left-wing council member and approved a new […]
International Solidarity Movement | August 17, 2014 Occupied Palestine – Yesterday at approximately 5:30 PM in the old city in al-Khalil (Hebron) settlers from the illegal settlement of Beit Hadassah threw rocks and water at Palestinians living on Shalala Street. This is a regular occurrence for Palestinian families living close to illegal settlements in al-Khalil. The majority […]
Ma’an – 14/08/2014 SALFIT – A Palestinian man was killed on Thursday after being knocked down by a settler car near the illegal settlement of Barkan in Salfit. Palestinian security sources told Ma’an that Muhammad Abd al-Karim Muhammad Abu Isleim, 23, was hit while trying to cross a street near the settlement. Israeli police officers […]
By Chris Carlson | International Middle East Media Center | August 11, 2014 As the Israeli Central Court of Jerusalem releases three youth accused in the recent homicide of 16-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir, another young Palestinian is found stabbed to death in Silwan, while a 13-year-old child is arrested under the pretext of carrying a […]
The Land Speaks Arabic. A Film by Maryse Gargour Reviewed by Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh: ‘La Terre Parle Arab’ (2007). Director Maryse Gargour. Arabic, French, English audio with English subtitles, 61 minutes. Winner of several European awards (ASBU, Prix France 3 Medirerranee, Prix Memoire du Medirerranee). This excellent documentary on one of the most pressing issues […]
International Solidarity Movement | August 6, 2014 Hebron, Occupied Palestine – In al-Khalil (Hebron) on Sunday August 3rd, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy was walking to his home near the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba when the Israeli military shot him in the chest with live ammunition. The following day, ISM volunteers went to visit the young boy […]
