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Update on Balata refugee Camp
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 4:49 pm | International Solidarity Movement
Sixteen year old Kamal Khalili was shot in his chest with live ammunition at 11:00 this morning in Balata Camp while throwing a stone at Israeli soldiers. He is now brain dead. According to Dr. Ghassan Hamdan head of the Nablus UPMRC nine other youths ... More >>
Israeli Military Blocks Emergency Medical Aid
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 4:30 pm | International Solidarity Movement
Since the incursion in Balata refugee camp started on 1:00 am February 19, medical emergency work has been made impossible by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). At this moment all entrances to Balata refugee camp are blocked. There is only one ambulance ... More >>
The Anger at Racist Cartoons Continues
Monday, 20 February 2006, 4:30 pm | International Solidarity Movement
1 Balata refugee camp is being invaded- Two youth killed and over thirty injured 2 The Joint Struggle Against the Occupation- The Conference 8.The Anger at Racist Cartoons Continues More >>
Support Non-Violent Resistance in Palestine
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 2:45 pm | International Solidarity Movement
One year on, the community of Bil'in continues its tireless non-violent struggle against Israel's wall despite the heavy cost this has meant to the village. More >>
Inflammatory Attack on Nonviolent Solidarity Group
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 3:22 pm | International Solidarity Movement
On Sunday, February 12, 2006, the Washington Post published a defamatory op-ed by two academics, Eric Adler and Jack Langer, calling for the cancellation of the upcoming Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) conference at Georgetown University and accusing ... More >>
Victory for Activists: Boycotting Israeli goods
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 2:11 pm | International Solidarity Movement
According to Green Left Weekly, ‘Seven activists who blockaded the British distribution centre of Israel’s biggest state-owned agricultural export company Agrexco in November 2004 were acquitted of all charges on January 26. The activists had been charged ... More >>
High School students attacked by Jerusalem Police
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 1:58 pm | International Solidarity Movement
On Friday (the Muslim Sabbath) Israeli police refused to allow Palestinians under the age of about 45 or so to enter the old city. Hisham Jamjoum ISM President and owner of the Faisal Hostel next to the old city commented "that there were 300-400 ... More >>
ISM Co-Founder Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Friday, 10 February 2006, 12:34 am | International Solidarity Movement
Letter from the AFSC nominating Ghassan Andoni and Jeff Halper for the Nobel Peace Prize The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker peace and social justice organization, has nominated two candidates for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize: Jeff Halper ... More >>
Statement Against Cartoons
Thursday, 9 February 2006, 2:59 pm | International Solidarity Movement
Statement by the International Solidarity Movement, International Women’s Peace Service, the Tel Rumeida project and Holy Land Trust (local organisations working with international citizens and peace teams in Palestine): More >>
Villagers expand first Palestinian settlement
Thursday, 9 February 2006, 2:27 pm | International Solidarity Movement
The Israeli army served Bil’in villagers a seizure order for six dunams yesterday. The villagers responded by expanding their own outpost, building a second house on the west side of the annexation barrier. The military order was issued for the construction ... More >>
Palestinians Appeal for the Release of Activists
Monday, 30 January 2006, 11:04 am | International Solidarity Movement
Following the recent release of new video footage of the four Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) members being held hostage in Iraq Palestinian leaders will again be uniting to appeal for their release. More >>
A Statement from Jews Against Genocide
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 10:40 am | International Solidarity Movement
On January 19th we, a group of concerned Jews, spray painted the infamous Nazi slogan "Arbeit Macht Frie" ("Work Makes You Free") on a sign placed by the Israeli occupation authorities at the Kalandia checkpoint that read "The ... More >>
UK Trial: Carmel Agrexco’s Complicity In Israel
Monday, 23 January 2006, 4:36 pm | International Solidarity Movement
Seven Palestine solidarity protesters from London and Brighton were arrested on 11th November 2004 after they took part in a non-violent blockade outside the UK base of an Israeli agricultural export company Agrexco (UK) Ltd, Swallowfield Way, Hayes, ... More >>
The Occupation Will Not Be Sugar-Coated
Monday, 23 January 2006, 4:35 pm | International Solidarity Movement
1. Thousands Challenge Israeli Apartheid in Bil’in by Henry 2. IOF Evacuated Human Rights Workers Instead of Illegal Settlers 3. Carmel Agrexico on Trial in Britain More >>
Electoral candidates unite against Apartheid Wall
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:49 pm | International Solidarity Movement
Candidates from all Palestinian Parties and factions, including Hamas, Fatah, Al Mubadara and others will join the villagers of Bil'in on Friday the 20th of January at 12;00 AM in a march to the construction site of the annexation barrier on their ... More >>
Pissing on the Graves of Civil Rights Heroes
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:08 pm | International Solidarity Movement
1. Human Rights Workers: IDF Claims a “Zero Tolerance” for Violent Settlers, But Not in Tel Rumeida 2. Despite Injunction from Israeli Supreme Court - Illegal Construction in Metityahu Mizrah Continues 3. Electoral candidates unite against the Apartheid ... More >>
IDF Claims a "Zero Tolerance" for Violent Settlers
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 3:21 pm | International Solidarity Movement
TEL RUMEIDA, HEBRON - Despite the Israeli government's claim of a "zero tolerance" policy against settler violence in Hebron, Human Rights Workers report that settlers have continued their violence against Palestinians with almost full impunity. The ... More >>
Palestine: The Price of Non Violence
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 1:50 pm | International Solidarity Movement
The Israeli Military has been distributing leaflets in Bil'in threatening the residents not to demonstrate against the annexation barrier. When despite these threats the villagers continue with their non-violent protests the military raids the village ... More >>
The Wall and The Demonstrators stand trial
Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 1:19 pm | International Solidarity Movement
Two very different trials will take place this week that relate to non-violence resistance to the Apartheid Wall. More >>
Bil'in Villagers 'resettle' confiscated land
Thursday, 22 December 2005, 6:40 pm | International Solidarity Movement
Villagers from Bi'lin have moved onto a part of their land that will be taken by the construction of the apartheid wall around the village. The action is an attempt to reclaim the land which is being used for the illegal expansion of the nearby Israeli ... More >>
