Witnessing Apartheid in Al-Khalil (Hebron) and Susya
Author: Simon Marshall | Date: October 2015 A demonstration in Susya over Israeli plans to evict and demolish the entire village. Photo: Jesse Locke My name is Simon. This past spring I spent six weeks as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine. I had never been to Palestine or the region before. […]
Yousef Ramouni Was Found Hanged In A Bus…
Nov 24, 2015, Jerusalem Watch On November 16th 2014, Yousef Ramouni, 32, was found hanged in a bus depot on the border of East and West Jerusalem, occupied Lifta. The Israeli police quickly framed his death as a suicide. The next day, Israeli officials conducted an autopsy with a single Palestinian observer, pathologist Dr. Saber […]
Nov 22 (talk): Shatila: 33 Years After the Massacre
Sun Nov 22, @ 7pm Strawberry Creek Lodge, 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA Journalist and professor Richard Hardigan will discuss his recent visit to the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila. The millions of Palestinian refugees, created by the Nakba in 1948, have been largely forgotten by the world, and for generations they have been dreaming […]
Palestinian Teen Killed By Israeli Army Fire Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers shot and killed, earlier Saturday, a Palestinian teenager in the al-Jalama Israeli military roadblock, north of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Photo By Fars News Agency Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired several rounds of live ammunition on the child, inflicting several serious gunshot injuries, causing him to die […]
Young Palestinian Man Killed By Israeli Army Fire In Hebron
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, have reported that a young man was shot and killed by Israeli army fire, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, south of the city. The army claimed the Palestinian attacked a soldier, mildly wounding him. The sources said the slain Palestinian has been […]
Palestinian voice speaks out: Twenty war crimes in a month by Israeli soldiers against Palestinians
25th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Hamza Khalil Abu Eltarabish | Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine Hamza Khalil Abu Eltarabish is a freelance journalist who graduated from the Islamic University of Gaza The young Palestinian man Fadi Alon performs the dawn prayers in his home in the west of Jerusalem and browses his Facebook and […]
Francesco Ruggiero in 12th International Conference on the Palestinian Diaspora
Author: Francesco Ruggiero|Date: September 2015 During the month of August 2015 I attended Diyar’s 12th International Conference on the Palestinian Diaspora that was held in Bethlehem, Palestine. It was a four-day event and there was the opportunity to meet many individuals, many of them Palestinians. For more information on Diyar, go to the website www.diyar.ps. […]
THIS SUNDAY: The Bullet, the Ballot, and the Boycott: Racism in Israel Today, with David Sheen
PLEASE NOTE: Cheryl Davila, who was removed from the Berkeley Human Welfare and Community Action Commission (HWCAC) for refusing to withdraw a BDS resolution, will update us at David Sheen’s Oct. 25 event (see below) on the latest developments following a meeting meeting on Wednesday October 21st at 7pm at the South Berkeley Senior Center. […]
Funeral for yet another martyr in Gaza
23rd October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine Thousands of persons attended the funeral of Ahmad Serhe, 27 years old, in Deir El Balah on 21st October 2015. He was killed the day before in Bureij by an Israeli sniper. Funeral procession
Shoot First Don’t ask Questions Later
International Solidarity Movement | West Bank, occupied Palestine A video posted on October 12th by Shehab news agency described as an attack on a Palestinian girl from Haifa in her twenties for allegedly trying to assault a taxi driver in Tel Aviv after an argument between them. The video shows a woman pinned to the […]