Archive for August, 2007

Fundraising and Support for the Up Coming Olive Harvest Needed

Monday, August 27th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, ISM Statements, Olive Harvest 2007


Despite the difficult situation in Palestine, your dedication and support have made the 2007 Summer Campaign a success (for some of the highlights of the campaign keep reading!) and have given hope and strength to Palestinian communities living under occupation....

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YNet: Peace Now report: Settlers Enjoy Luxury Roads

Monday, August 27th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases

Peace Now report: Settlers enjoy luxury roads

Organization says State invests large sums in constructing highways for settlers in West Bank, while shortage in funds leaves infrastructure within Green Line lacking
Efrat Weiss
Published:
08.26.07,...

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Jewish Hebron Market Heir Opposes Settlers

Monday, August 27th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Hebron Region

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Aug 26, 2007 0:25 | Updated Aug 26, 2007 0:25

The descendent of the Jewish owner of Hebron’s disputed marketplace is left wing, secular and lives in Tel Aviv.

Unlike the Hebron...

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Ynet Opinion: Ugly Mountain Air

Sunday, August 26th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings

Yehuda Litani
Published:
08.26.07, 08:41 / Israel Opinion

Kibbutz Kfar Etzion’s guest house, in the heart of Gush Etzion, is offering the public the chance to stay there over Rosh Hashana and enjoy “its magical, countryside atmosphere”.

An...

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Settlers Violate Court Stipulations in Wrestle for Palestinian Land

Saturday, August 25th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Hebron Region

August 20, 2007

Shortly after 4 pm, local Palestinian residents alerted four international human rights workers to the illegal presence of Israeli settlers working on Palestinian land off the main highway between Susya and Karmel settlements.


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Gulf News: Probe into Israeli building firm hailed.

Saturday, August 25th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Bil'in Village

Gulf News: Probe into Israeli building firm hailed.

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli authorities have started an investigation into a construction company that filed bankruptcy after it failed to deliver sold houses in a colony built on Palestinian land, Israeli police said yesterday.

“Police are investigating the owner of the...

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Colored People to the Back of the Bus

Saturday, August 25th, 2007 | Posted in Journals, Hebron Region, Photos

by: Yifat Appelbaum

This summer, the International Solidarity Movement, Art Under Apartheid, Tel Rumeida Project and Glasgow Palestine Human Rights teamed up to take over 100 Palestinian children from Hebron to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem...

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Work Continues on South Hebron Farm In the Face of Settler Pressure

Saturday, August 25th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Hebron Region

On the evening of Friday August 24th humanitarian workers from groups including the ISM, CPT and B’tselem accompanied the Jabaari family to their farm located between the exclusively Jewish Kiryat Arba and Givat Harsina settlements, near the old city of Hebron.
For a number of months now, a tent erected by local settlers on part of the Palestinian...

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Umm Salamuna Demo Proceeds, Despite IOF Interference

Saturday, August 25th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Video, Bethlehem Region

On Friday August 24 at 12:00pm around 40 Palestinians and 40 internationals gathered in Umm Salumuna, in the region of south Bethlehem, to protest the building of the apartheid wall. The village had been declared a military zone by the IOF, thus preventing anyone who didn’t live there from entering by road. However, this did not make it illegal...

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133rd Demonstration in Bil’in - IOF Violence Against Peaceful Demonstration

Friday, August 24th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Bil'in Village, Video

Bil’in 24 august 2007 video:

The...

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