by ISM Hebron, October 17th

At 12.35pm two soldiers asked a Human Rights Worker (HRW) sitting opposite checkpoint 56 (the main entrance in and out of the Israeli controled H2 part of Hebron) to not watch the soldiers at the checkpoint and to move up the hill away from the checkpoint. The HRW refused to do this and the soldiers...

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by Uri Avnery, October 14th

IS IT possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it?

That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the governments of Israel and the United States, in close...

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by ISM media team, October 17th

The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported yesterday that settlers from the illegal colony of Susia, east of Yatta in the south of the Hebron region, annexed 150 dunams of farmland, plowed them and planted several trees. The annexed orchards...

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from brightonpalestine.org, October 16th

I visited Al Jiftlik, a Palestinian town in the Jordan Valley last week in the hope of making connections between grassroots groups in the valley and in Brighton.

Al Jiftlik is in the Israeli controlled area of the valley although...

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by the ISM media team, October 16th

Emad Bornat, the Reuters cameraman and video-journalist who was kidnapped by Israeli forces after a demonstration in Bil’in on October 6th, has been in detention now at Ofer military prison for 10 days....

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ISM Hebron, Saturday 14th October, 2006

On two occasions this week Human Rights Workers (HRWs) witnessed colonist settlers from the illegal Israeli-Jewish caravans at Tel Rumeida stealing Palestinian olives...

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by ISM Hebron, October 14th

Olive harvesting will begin in Hebron after Eid, the Muslim festival that marks the end of Ramadam (the month of fasting during daylight hours). Palestinians will face restrictions...

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