Archive for July, 2005

Update on Shora Esamilan

Sunday, July 31st, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases

Shora Esamilan, ISM activist from Sweden, has arrived back in her country after being deported from Israel. She was forced onto a plane by five policemen, including two brought in specially from Austria. On her way onto the plane, the police beat her with batons.

Shora was brutally interrogated by the Israeli general security services (GSS,...

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Vigil at Ofer Military Base for Peace Activist Abdullah Abu Rahme

Saturday, July 30th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Bil'in Village, Freedom Summer 2005

On Sunday, July 31st, Israeli, Palestinian and international peace activists will hold a vigil at the Ofer Military Base at 3 PM to protest the imprisonment of Abdullah Abu Rahme. Abdullah, a leader of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall has been in detention at Ofer Military Base since his arrest during a non-violent demonstration...

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Palestinians Give the Israeli military a ‘Gift House’

Saturday, July 30th, 2005 | Posted in Reports, Bil'in Village, Freedom Summer 2005

They Receive Rubber Bullets and Tear Gas in Return in Bilin

by Ninna and Palle

Today’s demonstration in Bil’in sent a message to world. “Even though settlers are being removed from Gaza, many new settlements are being built in the West Bank.” The 27-foot Apartheid wall eats up more land for existing...

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Border Police `lie about violence at fence protests’

Friday, July 29th, 2005 | Posted in Press clippings, Bil'in Village

By Jonathan Lis
Ha’aretz Daily

For more than six months, dozens of Israelis and hundreds of Palestinians have been demonstrating every weekend against the construction of the separation fence near the West Bank village of Bil’in. These demonstrations, defined by participants as peaceful, frequently turn into violent clashes...

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Peace means the freedom of movement

Friday, July 29th, 2005 | Posted in Nablus Region, Freedom Summer 2005

The road to Asira blocked by soldeirs

July 29, 2005
by Sarita Ahooja

Eight ISM Internationals from Canada, Sweden, and Spain, along with 5 Israeli activists joined in a spirited...

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ISM MEDIA ALERT: Hebron residents protest at internal checkpoints

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Hebron Region, Freedom Summer 2005

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Hebron residents protest at internal checkpoints

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT — The city of Hebron is dissected by a labyrinth of checkpoints that keep people isolated not only from elsewhere in the occupied Palestine, but often from the other end of town. On Saturday at 11:30 a.m., Hebron citizens plan...

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A West Bank village opts for peaceful protest to broach the Wall

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 | Posted in Press clippings, Bil'in Village, Freedom Summer 2005

By MOHAMMED KHATIB

The Seattle Post Intelligencer
seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/233676_arab24.html
Sunday, July 24, 2005

Israel’s planned evacuation of its illegal...

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Swedish Activist Apprehended At Tel Aviv Airport

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, International Actions, Freedom Summer 2005

Swedish ISM-activist Shora Esmailian is currently being held at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. She arrived 15.00 yesterday and was interrogated for ten consecutive hours. A representative from the Israeli Defence Departement in charge of the interrogation demanded information from Esmailian about certain Palestinians. We do not know if Esmailian...

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Crackdown on peace activists in West Bank

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Nablus Region, Bil'in Village, Freedom Summer 2005

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Israeli forces employed an increased level of brutality against nonviolent Palestinian, Israeli and foreign activists Friday during demonstrations in the West Bank villages of Asira and Bil’in.

ASIRA
Over 250 villagers of Asira, in Nablus district, gathered at 10 a.m. Friday to begin the demonstration...

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Agricultural buildings in West Bank village demolished for Israel’s illegal wall

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Salfit Region, Freedom Summer 2005

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Residents in the West Bank village of Fundook awoke at 7 a.m. this morning to the sound of their livelihood being demolished as heavy equipment sent there by the Israeli military began demolishing agricultural structures to make way for Israel’s illegal Annexation Barrier.

Fundook is a small village in...

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