Archive for September, 2005

Olive harvest begins in Bil’in

Friday, September 30th, 2005 | Posted in Bil'in Village, Video

On September 30th the people of the West Bank village of Bil’in attempt to harvest their olives. Their lands are now on the other side of the Apartheid Wall construction site.

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CNI Public Hearing: “Dual Occupations, Dual Jeopardy”

Thursday, September 29th, 2005 | Posted in Press clippings, International Actions

Press Release, Council for the National Interest

A REPORT ON THE CNI PUBLIC HEARING ON CAPITOL HILL

The links between the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights were emphasized in a September 26th public hearing sponsored by...

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Settler Violence Against Human Rights Observers and Palestinians in Hebron

Sunday, September 25th, 2005 | Posted in Reports, Hebron Region

Tel Rumeida, Incident Report by Sarah

After the main group of settlers had passed us on the hill, Moran and I followed the rest of them up to the intersection at the top of the hill where many of them were milling around.

We wondered where Eva and Sarah were. We later found out that they had been forced into the shop by the crowd...

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The Land Grab Continues in West Bank

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 | Posted in International Actions, Bil'in Village, Disengagement

Mohamed, 13, runs with the Palestinian flag on a beach near the former Israeli settlement of Neve Dekalim, 12 September 2005. Mohamed...

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Israeli War Criminals Find Tough Crowd Abroad

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, International Actions

Israeli war criminals are finding more challenges as they attempt to travel abroad. The International Solidarity Movement encourages all those concerned about human rights to continue pressuring...

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One Palestinian Killed an Another Injured as Military ‘Disengages’

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 | Posted in Gaza Region

By the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Today as Israeli forces completed their redployment to the border areas of the Gaza Strip on Monday the 12th of September, 2005 one Palestinian youth was killed and another was injured while they were standing beside their home in the al Salam quarter of south-east of Rafah town,...

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Closed Military Neighborhood

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 | Posted in Journals, Hebron Region

Internationals challenge Israeli repression in Tel Rumeida

by Joe Carr

Due to the effectiveness of our work in Tel Rumeida, the Israeli military and police have increased their efforts to rid the area of internationals. Volunteers from a variety of international organizations have been doing full-time...

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Israel represses non-violent protest in occupied West Bank

Friday, September 9th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Bil'in Village

Submitted by David Bloom

Every Friday for months now, the Palestinian village of Bi’lin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has been the scene of creative and organized non-violent protests against the illegal construction of Israel’s “separation...

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ISM ALERT: Right now soliders are in Bil’in rounding up activists

Friday, September 9th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Bil'in Village

It’s 9 p.m. west coast U.S. time, later obviously back east. Here in Palestine it’s 7:05 a.m. and the Israeli military has launched an invasion of the West Bank village of Bil’in that you’ve been reading about so much as of late. The goal is to round up all our international and Israeli activists before there’s any...

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Bil’in Locked Down in Curfew

Thursday, September 8th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Bil'in Village

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ISM Media Team
Contact: Mohammed 0545851893
Media Office: 022971824
Greta: 0542011548

At 5:00 am, three border police cars broke the peaceful sleep of the villagers in Bil’in, moving through the village with their bullhorns blaring. “You...

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