Six year anniversary of the death of Vittorio Arrigoni
AUTHOR: INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT, GAZA TEAM Date: April 16, 2017 16th April 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Gaza, occupied Palestine Today marks the 6th anniversary of the death of Vittorio Arrigoni, a journalist and an italian activist working with the International Solidarity Movement, in Gaza. Arrigoni first went to Gaza in 2008, […]
NYT: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
Author: Marwan Barghouti Date: April 17, 2017 Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these […]
December 2016 Newsletter
Gaza Blockade Impact on Fresh Water SFP Work in Lebanon Camps How an ISM Member Cheated Death Volunteering at Refugee Camps in Jordan **In PDF Format: ism_news_v132-december-2016-color
Volunteering at Refugee Camps in Jordan
Author: Katherine Latham Date: September, 2016 Last spring, I found myself facing several hurdles, and trying to get established with volunteer projects in Amman Jordan, having been turned away at the Allenby Bridge crossing into the West Bank by the Israeli authorities. While it was a big disappointment to have my passport stamped “denied entry” […]
The Gaza Blockade is Causing an End to Gaza’s Fresh Water
Author: International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team Date: August 7, 2016 As every year during the summer, the water shortage in the Gaza Strip is accentuated. At the same time, the energy shortage caused by the blockade prevents engines and water pumps from pushing it from wells and tanks to houses and farming fields. The Beach […]
Solidarity Movement for Free Palestine Work in Lebanon
Author: Katie Leslie Date: October 2016 [In late 2013, some of the Palestinian leadership of ISM in Palestine created their own nonviolent resistance organization on the same model, calling it the Solidarity Movement for Free Palestine (SFP). We at NorCal ISM decided to support both groups, which we have been doing ever since. The […]
How an ISM Member Cheated Death
Author: Paul Larudee Date: October 17, 2016 Julie Rufo’s last Facebook post (on the war in Syria) was probably minutes before she almost died on September 2, 2016. I first met Julie at a talk I gave on the successful boat trips to Gaza, in late 2008. She told me that she would like […]
A Childhood Measured in Wars
A childhood measured in wars Living through a war is an experience I don’t wish on my worst enemies. It’s one of the most excruciating experiences a person could have, and I first had mine when I was 10 years old. It was 2006 when Fatah and Hamas fought for control of Gaza. I find […]
I apologize for being alive
I feared I wouldn’t be able to go back to my former life after the war ended, but I did. It felt so awkward. Everything was normal and people were acting as usual. How did I go back to my life, loaded with the guilt of being alive, of breathing? I apologize for being alive. […]
Ahmad Manasra: On Trial for Being Alive
The Palestinian child Ahmad Manasra at Zionist occupation military court today. Ahmad was severely injured after being shot by fascist Zionist occupation police about 8 months ago, he was left bleeding for about an hour, then he was kidnapped. Ahmad’s will to live was stronger than their will to kill, he is the living evidence […]