Blog Title: International Solidarity Movement

Candle-light vigil held in Nablus in solidarity with Gaza

window.document.getElementById('post-3647').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post'; On the evening of November 30th, Palestinians from the West Bank city of Nablus assembled in the city centre to show support for the people of Gaza, who have been denied access to food, water, medicine and electricity as a result of the complete closure of the ...

Reaction in Gaza as the boats stolen by the Israeli navy are returned damaged

window.document.getElementById('post-3644').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post'; Three Palestinian trawling vessels confiscated by Israeli naval forces were returned on Thursday 27th November. ISM Gaza Strip made this video as the boats were finally returned. Almost immediately following the announcement that three Human Rights Groups had filed an appeal against Ehud Barak and the commander of the ...

Settlers injure ten Palestinians as they continue to riot in Hebron

window.document.getElementById('post-3643').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post'; At around 10am, 29th November, Palestinians living between the occupied Rajabi house and the settlement Kiryat Arba in Hebron were attacked by a group of up to 300 settlers and were again attacked at 2:30 pm. The settlers were throwing stones at Palestinians and their houses. The settler ...

ei: The struggle is not over - Remembering Mohammed al-Kurd

window.document.getElementById('post-3641').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post'; By Pam Rasmussen Please visit the website ‘Though Shalt Not Steal’ To view original article, published by The Electronic Intifada on the 26th November, click here Abu Kamel and his wife, Um Kamel, eat breakfast with international volunteers at the al-Kurd’s family home. (Photo by Pam Rasmussen) The saying that a ...

Ni’lin holds prayer demonstration against the Apartheid Wall

28th November 2008 - Ni’lin village On Friday 28th November at 12.30pm approximately 150 Palestinians, internationals and Israelis gathered in protest against the illegal Apartheid Wall that is now under construction on Ni’lin village’s land. The army met the protesters with teargas and rubber-coated steel bullets half a kilometer before they reached ...

ISM Gaza Strip: IOF bulldozers and tank on Gazan land east of Khan Younis

On Thursday the 27th of November a group of ISM volunteers who were accompanying farmers and monitoring the situation in Khouza’a east of Khan Younis, observed a concentration of IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) behind the Green Line. At about 10.15 a.m. two D-9 armoured bulldozers and a tank crossed the ...

Israeli forces invade Jayyous in attempt to prevent protest against the Apartheid Wall

Hundreds of Jayyous residents were prevented from protesting at the Wall on Friday 28th November when Israeli military forces invaded the village. More than 200 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists were prevented from leaving the village to demonstrate against the new path of the Apartheid Wall, when Israeli army and police ...

Israel attempts to avoid court challenge by returning stolen Palestinian fishing boats

Thursday 27th November, 2008 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine Three Palestinian trawling vessels confiscated by Israeli naval forces were returned today almost immediately following yesterdays announcement that three Human Rights Groups had filed an appeal against Ehud Barak and the commander of the Israeli navy. The vessels were stolen from ...

Human rights groups file appeal against Ehud Barak over the confiscation of Palestinian fishing boats

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank: On November 25, 2008, Al-Mazan, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) have filed a legal appeal against Ehud Barak and the commander of the Israeli Navy. The appeal was launched over Israel’s illegal confiscation of three large fishing boats ...

Ynet: Report - Most cases of IDF abuse of Palestinians don’t lead to charges

To view original article, published by Ynet on the 26th November, click here Research conducted by human rights organization Yesh Din finds only 6 percent of investigations against soldiers accused of harming Palestinian civilians resulted in indictments in last seven years; military courts fail to hand severe sentences for offenses Only six ...