International Solidarity Movement - Latest News [Page 53]
Jenin Invasion/ Occupied Home in Nablus
Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 10:43 am | International Solidarity Movement
For four months, beginning on February 2nd, the Israeli Occupation Forces have been occupying a family house in Sarah Village. The father of the family originally built the house in 1963. The family has grown to fourteen people. To accommodate an eldest ... More >>
June 5 Protest to Mark 36 Years of Occupation
Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 10:40 am | International Solidarity Movement
On June 5, 2003, the thirty-sixth anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the community of Nablus, joined by members of the International Solidarity Movement, will demonstrate at the Huwarra checkpoint to protest the continuous violence ... More >>
Tom Hurndall to Return to UK TODAY
Friday, 30 May 2003, 8:55 am | International Solidarity Movement
On 11th April Tom Hurndall - a young photographer observing and recording the work of a peace group in Gaza and the activities of the Israeli army was shot in the head by the Israeli army in the town of Rafah at the border between Gaza and Egypt. He ... More >>
“No One Need Cry” Jenin Documentary available
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 10:00 am | International Solidarity Movement
Within days after the Jenin massacre in April, 2002, when U.N. observers were denied access, when most journalists were kept away, filmmaker Maren Karlitsky began documenting what had just happened (and was to some extent still happening). She went with IWPS ... More >>
IOF Kills Unarmed Palestinian Boy Wounds 3 Others
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 9:58 am | International Solidarity Movement
Seven-year-old Moyad Barakat sustained rubber-bullet wounds to his stomach and is currently undergoing treatment at Thabit Thabit Hospital in Tulkarem More >>
ISM Activists Detained By Israeli Military
Monday, 26 May 2003, 3:05 pm | International Solidarity Movement
[Refugee Camp, TULKAREM] Two American ISM volunteers and one Palestinian were taken by Israeli Forces at 9:45AM this morning after accompanying schoolgirls to their homes. Mike Johnson, age 52 from Washington, Matteo Bernal, age 22, from Kentucky ... More >>
Volunteers Arrested - Update and Call to Action
Monday, 26 May 2003, 1:06 pm | International Solidarity Movement
Osama Qashoo has been released. After being taken to the Tulkarem DCO handcuffed and blindfolded, he was beaten. He didn't see his aggressors because of the blindfolds. No interrogation took place. He was held for over 6 hrs before his release. More >>
Home Demolitions in Nablus
Monday, 26 May 2003, 1:05 pm | International Solidarity Movement
5-21-03 Nablus Last night in Nablus two homes were destroyed by the Israeli Occupation Forces. The destruction of these homes is in direct violation of Article 33 of the 4th Geneva Conventions, namely, "No protected person may be punished for an ... More >>
UPMRC Clinic Raided and Trashed by IOF
Monday, 26 May 2003, 9:37 am | International Solidarity Movement
This morning, around 02.30, the UPMRC (Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees) field clinic in Nablus was raided by the IOF. More >>
CPT member facing deportation+2 women went to war
Friday, 23 May 2003, 10:30 am | International Solidarity Movement
1) Action Alert - CPT member facing deportation 2) Why two women went to war (Rachel Corrie & Private Jessica Lynch)_Naomi Klein More >>
Clashes in Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus
Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 4:00 pm | International Solidarity Movement
Sunday, May 18th, clashes erupted between the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) and at least 80 Palestinian youth of the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. IOF entered Balata in an armored personnel carrier (APC) and a jeep at 4.25 AM. One hour later, ... More >>
Nablus Incursions -Curfews
Monday, 19 May 2003, 9:09 am | International Solidarity Movement
Saif reports from Nablus that tanks are moving into the city from the east and west directions and from the Rojeeb area. Amman St is closed and 2 tanks are are blocking the entrance to the Mohafada government building. The city of Nablus has been separated, ... More >>
Speech by Sophie Hurndall
Monday, 19 May 2003, 7:45 am | International Solidarity Movement
I have been asked to speak at this rally as the sister of Tom Hurndall. As many of you may know Tom was shot while trying to save children from Israeli army fire. While I would emphasise that my family have no political affiliation, what Tom and ... More >>
Cindy Corrie on Mother's Day
Friday, 16 May 2003, 10:26 am | International Solidarity Movement
This year, I hear from Chris and Sarah by phone and in person. Not from Rachel, who on March 16 was killed by a bulldozer in the Gaza Strip, while trying to protect a Palestinian home from demolition. Rachel is, though, powerfully with me-in the ... More >>
13 Injured by IDF Fire in Nablus
Thursday, 15 May 2003, 8:23 am | International Solidarity Movement
13 Injured by IDF Fire in Nablus - Update on ISM Volunteers Detained - Reports are coming in that Nablus is again under siege. Earlier today, 7 Israeli jeeps, a tank, and an APC entered Nablus for an unknown reason. As schools let out some children ... More >>
1 killed, 18 injured in Nablus IDF in Jenin
Thursday, 15 May 2003, 8:14 am | International Solidarity Movement
Tayseer Abushab, age 22-23, was killed today by Israeli soldiers in Nablus in an ongoing incursion into the area of the grand Mosque/Martyrs cemetary. His twin brother, Kamal, was killed by Israeli soldiers last year during an incursion in. 18 Palestinians ... More >>
ISM updates
Monday, 12 May 2003, 5:24 pm | International Solidarity Movement
1) Israeli Forces Snatch, Beat and Arrest ISM Volunteers - 2) Update from Jenin - 3) Tulkarm Curfew: Day 7 More >>
3 Internationals In IDF Custody In Tulkarem
Monday, 12 May 2003, 9:48 am | International Solidarity Movement
[Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestine] At approximately 6:00 PM, May 10, 2003, Radika, a US citizen, Charlotte, a UK citizen, and Osama, a Palestinian coordinator working with the ISM, were detained by Israeli forces near Tulkarem in the West Bank. More >>
Israeli Forces Raid ISM Office
Monday, 12 May 2003, 9:46 am | International Solidarity Movement
[Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestine] Israeli forces raided the ISM office this morning, confiscating equipment and material and snatching three women. At 12:30pm on Friday, May 9, approximately 20 military vehicles, army jeeps and a large armored personnel ... More >>
Two Britons Still Held at Erez Border Crossing
Monday, 12 May 2003, 9:10 am | International Solidarity Movement
It has been twenty eight hours since, at 8:30 PM on Thursday evening, May 8, 2003, two British Internationals were detained at Erez border crossing at the entrance to the Gaza strip. The Internationals are Nick and Alice. Both have been held at ... More >>
