International Middle East Media Center
On Thursday, two prominent Palestinian citizens started an open-ended hunger strike to protest the dire economic situation created by the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, and the ‘collective punishment’ of…
On the morning of Monday, April 17, Jab’a villagers held a march demanding the right to farm their land, along with Palestinians from nearby villages, and international and Israeli activists…
Friday afternoon, Approximately 400 protesters, including 70 Israeli and international peace activists marched in Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, against the Israeli annexation Wall and the…
Israeli Forces have been carrying out late-night raids into the village of Budrus and forcing people at gunpoint to undergo fingerprint checks. Soldiers have stormed several houses over the last…
On Wednesday, hundreds of youth gathered at Bethlehem University to participate in a march to launch Palestine Child Week. The march wound its way through the narrow streets of Bethlehem’s…
This weekend, a group of Palestinians and Israelis gathered in Abu Dis to “break the sound barrier by drumming through the wall”. As the sun set on Saturday, close to…
This weekend, a group of Palestinians and Israelis gathered in Abu Dis to “break the sound barrier by drumming through the wall”. As the sun set on Saturday, close to…
The Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, invited diplomats from several European representatives offices in the Palestinian areas to participate in an activity regarding the…
Palestinians living in are planning number of activities to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Land Day. On this day, Palestinian residents of who protested ‘s land confiscation policy in 1976,…
Yesterday, dozens of people from Beit Ummar village in northern Hebron faced off with Israeli soldiers in a non-violent demonstration on their own land which is being confiscated for the…
American citizen and peace activist Rachel Corrie was run down by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to protect the home of a Palestinian doctor on March 16, 2003. On the…
At this week’s anti-Wall protest in the Palestinian village of Bil’in Friday, Palestinian and Israeli activists ‘hung’ themselves in mock nooses from the Wall to symbolize the ‘death sentence’ wrought…
During a recent lecture at the University of Oregon, Yuval Rabin, son of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was asked if he believed that a Palestinian leader would…
In the face of increasing anti-Palestinian sentiment in the United States after the Hamas party’s victory in January’s elections, artists portraying the conflict to American audiences are finding themselves facing…
Following a weekend of peaceful anti-Wall protests, a protest Sunday in the village of Anta, north of Jerusalem, was marred by Israeli police violence against demonstrators which resulted in two…
Seven Palestinians and an Israeli supporter were injured today by Israeli forces that opened fire on a nonviolent demonstration against the Wall in Beit Sira Village, west of Ramallah. Several…
On Friday afternoon, hundreds of Palestinian residents protested in the main yard of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, against the controversial cartoon printed in a Danish newspaper two weeks…
Friday afternoon, residents of Bil’in along with dozens of Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly protest against the Separation Wall, and protested against the perceived insult to Islam…
As the session of the Israeli Supreme Court regarding the construction of the wall on the land of the West Bank village of Bil’in near Ramallah nears, the villagers continue…
As the sunset of Sunday January 15th, religious leaders from Jerusalem, Central Israel, and the Galilee gathered in the Arab city of Rama. Over 200 Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Druze…
The Palestinian Holy Land Trust, a non-governmental organization based in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, organized on Friday afternoon, a peaceful procession against the Separation for children in the…
An Israeli Court started on Tuesday hearing witnesses in the case of Mohammed Mansour, a non-violent-protest organizer against the Separation Wall in Biddu village near Jerusalem.The International Solidarity Movement (ISM)…
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation launched a petition protesting against the Caterpillar Company for heavy industries. The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that the campaign published a…
An Israeli movement which rejects the occupation organized the protests which it named "It is time to return to the Green Line", demanding Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories…
The International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) in cooperation with Palestine News Network (PNN) held a workshop on Wednesday on the role of media in nonviolence in conflict areas. The…
The International Popular (nonviolent) Resistance Conference opened on Tuesday night under the auspices of the Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem with an attendance of 200 internationals from around the world…
This evening, the International Nonviolence Conference will open in Bethlehem under the auspices of the Holy Land Trust. The conference will continue over a three day period with the participation…
The al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, released a statement on Friday declaring that it will not disarm and will continue its resistance “until the last settler…
The court at the Ofer Military Base sentenced, on Thursday,  eight of the 17 arrestees from the west bank village of Bil’in between two and four months detention plus a…
Residents of Bil’in, west of Ramallah, Israeli and international peace activists intend to commemorate the late Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, on Friday marking the first anniversary of his death, the…
The Media Office of the International Solidarity movement reported that Israeli soldiers invaded Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, and distributed leaflets in front of the village’s mosque warning the residents…
Thousands of Arab residents of Israel, and peace groups, continued their procession for the Third day, in memoriam of the 13 residents who were killed by the Israeli police in…
Mohammad Al-Khatib, member of the Popular Committee Against the Wall, reported that 52 Israeli and international peace activists, and two residents, were arrested in Bil’in village, near the West Bank…
At least 40 demonstrators were hurt and 52 were arrested in a nonviolent protest against the separation wall in the village of Bil’in near the West Bank city of Ramallah,…
Israeli soldiers told the leader of the ‘Popular Committee against the Wall’ to stop all the Anti-Wall protests in the village, the international Solidarity Movement (ISM) said on Monday. In…
The Israeli and Swiss soccer teams and the spectators were shocked to see several peace activists running into the soccer field carrying slogans in support of the Palestinians during a…
Israeli soldiers fired on Friday gas bombs and concussion grenades at dozens of residents, and International peace activists, before they even started their weekly peaceful protest in Bil’in village, near…
The Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bel’in, west of Ramallah, reported on Friday evening that Israeli soldiers fired at a peaceful protest against the Separation Wall. Three residents were injured…
Six anti-wall protestors were wounded on Thursday when Israeli troops and police attempted to disperse a demonstration in the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Budrus, west of Ramallah. Israeli…
For over six months, since the start of the construction of the separation wall near the village of Bil’in west of Ramallah, residents of the village joined by scores of…
Israeli soldiers fired on Friday afternoon, at a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in Bel’in, west of Ramallah; six residents were injured, and five others were arrested. A local…
Israel denied access to a group of 130 international human rights and peace activists of the Caravan for Justice in Palestine, who tried to access the country, coming from Jordan,…
Friday afternoon, dozens of residents, Israeli and international peace activists conducted the weekly peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in Bil’in, west of Ramallah. “Peace needs bridges, not Wallsâ€Â, slogans…
19 Palestinians were injured Thursday in clashes with the Israeli army in the village of Amateen, east of Qalqilia. The fighting erupted after the army began bulldozing villagers’ farmlands to…
Five Palestinians were arrested and two injured when the Israeli army attacked a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in the village of Mnezel, south of Hebron, on Wednesday afternoon. Dozens of…
19 Palestinian farmers from a village near Qalqilia were wounded Thursday morning by Israeli troops as they tried to prevent bulldozers from uprooting their orchards. Soldiers invaded the village of…
Two Palestinian children were injured and four residents arrested Tuesday evening in Qutna village, northwest of Jerusalem, as soldiers fired on and attacked dozens of residents who were attempting to stop…
An Israeli Border Policeman died Sunday after suddenly collapsing while policing the separation wall near Jerusalem. Police initially claimed that Natan Yasais, 21, had been hit by a rock thrown…
Hundreds of protestors, including 50 Israeli and 25 International peace activists, took to the streets in protest of the construction of the separation wall in the West Bank village of…
An Israeli military court on Monday found Israeli soldier Taysir Al-Heib guilty of the manslaughter of British peace Activist Tom Hurndall in Gaza Strip in April 2003. The court also…
Wisam Sahel Qabalan, from Beit Dajan, in the north of the country, was sentenced to 29 consecutive days after rejecting military service for conscious reasons.  “I prefer to be…
Protesters against the separation wall in the village of Belein, near Ramallah, responded Friday to army tear gas by throwing balloons filed with chicken urine “poo missiles” at soldiers. “It…
Friday afternoon, Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs and rubber-coated bullets at a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in the village of Marda, near the West Bank city of Salfit.…
Wednesday evening, Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protest against the Wall in Bil’in organized by physically challenged residents from several West Bank areas.  The WAFA news agency reported that…
Wednesday morning, the WAFA news agency reported that Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Marda, near the West Bank city of Salfit, and imposed curfew, barring the resident from leaving…
A medical source in the West Bank city of Salfit reported that twenty residents suffocated after inhaling gas fired by the army, during clashes which erupted in Marda village after…
Sunday afternoon, Israeli soldiers fired at dozens of residents, Israeli and international peace activists, while protesting against the Separation Wall, and land grab in Beit Sroik, north west of Jerusalem.…
A Palestinian source reported Saturday that soldiers ambushed and detained a leading member in the Belien’s village anti-wall committee. Eyewitnesses said that soldiers blocked on Friday the way of a…
Saturday afternoon, Israeli soldiers arrested some 30 left-wing Israeli peace activists in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. An Israeli military source reported that the activists were protesting in…
On Sunday early morning hours, Israeli soldiers, who are guarding the construction of the separation wall near the village of Belein, near Ramallah, found five human barrels blocking the construction…
Israeli peace activists displayed dozens of posters of Palestinian children killed by the army during the past four years around Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The Anarchist Committee to Remember the…
In a Jerusalem press conference, Israeli leftist groups who took part in the Belein village demonstration on April 28, presented a video that shows undercover soldiers throwing stones from the…
Wednesday morning, Israeli activists of the Anarchist movement tied themselves to olive trees in Bel’in village in an attempt to stop military bulldozers from uprooting trees for the purpose of building the separation…
A medical source in Ramallah reported that Israeli soldiers used a new weapon against anti-wall protesters in the village of Belein, west of Ramallah. The source stated that soldiers…
As many controversial reports were published on the events that took place in the Village of Beilin, near Ramallah, on Thursday, IMEMC correspondence in Ramallah visited the Village on Friday…
Israeli Arab MK Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash) was lightly hurt Thursday by a stun grenade thrown by police officers at an anti-wall protest in the village of Bilien, near the West…
At least 21 Palestinian demonstrators were wounded in a nonviolent anti-wall demonstration in the village of Beliin north of the West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian sources reported. The demonstration was…
‘My name is Rachel Corrie’ is the title of the play running in London’s theaters tracing the journey of Rachel Corrie from comfortable American home to death in a Gaza…
The central court in Tel Aviv ruled to end solitary confinement of Tali Fahima, an Israeli citizen arrested upon alleged accusations of helping Palestinians carry out attacks in Israel. Fahima…
Israeli Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz decided Tuesday to ban nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu from leaving the country for a further 12 months, claiming his departure could harm Israel’s national security.…
Israeli soldiers attacked on Friday afternoon a peaceful protest against the Separation wall in Bal’in, west of Ramallah; five residents were injured and two international peace activists arrested. A local…
Israeli soldiers, On Wedensday used force to disperse an anti-wall, anti-caterpillar peaceful protest in the village of Beilin near the West bank city of Ramallah. According to local sources, soldiers…
Few hundreds Palestinian protesters from the Nablus region, supported by Israeli and International peace activists blocked Monday the way of garbage trucks coming from the center of Israel to dump…
Friday afternoon, at least 10 residents were injured after Israeli soldiers fired at peaceful protest against the Wall in Deir Ballout, near Salfit. A local source in the village said…
As only 20 percent of the wall around Jerusalem is a cement wall, Israeli Security officials have decided to raise the ‘cement wall’ portion to 30 percent claiming that this…
Israeli soldiers opened fire and seriously wounded four Palestinians on Wednesday morning near the Village of Deir ballout in the Salfit district. According to eyewitnesses, soldiers opened fire from a…
Three Palestinians were wounded on Wednesday morning; one of them seriously, by Israeli security guards gunfire at a separation wall work site northwest of the West bank city of Ramallah.…
Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful procession against the Wall in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah. A local source in the village stated that dozens of residents,…
Participants in the interfaith dialogue conference in Jerusalem concluded their Saturday conference with a protest march against the separation wall. At the end of their one day meeting, participants issued…
Israeli troops opened fire at a crowded demonstration in Asseera Al-Shamaliyeh, near Nablus. The demonstration, organized by students of Al-Najah University, was a protest against the presence of a military…
Soldiers fired Wednesday afternoon rubber coated metal bullets at around 300 demonstrators in the village of Surif, near the West Bank city of Hebron, wounding Three Palestinians. Protesters gathered in…
Local sources in Dier Balout village, south of the West Bank city of Qalqilyah, reported that 14 Palestinians and an Israeli peace activist were wounded to various degrees on Friday…
A local source in Dir Ballout, near Salfit, reported that at least 14 residents were injured during clashes which erupted after Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protest against the Separation…
An Israeli court convicted two Israeli residents after charging them with obstructing army while attempting to demolish a Palestinian home near Jerusalem. Head of the “Hakhams for Peace†organization Erik Ahserman and…
Israeli Soldiers, who used force to disperse a peaceful anti-wall protest, fully burned a Palestinian home in the village of Belein, west of the city of Ramallah. Home owner, Marzoq…
The parents of Rachel Corrie, a U.S. activist killed in Gaza while trying to stop an Israeli army bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian home, filed suit in Israel on Tuesday…
Sunday afternoon, Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protest of Israeli and Palestinians women in the village of Bal’in, west of the northern West Bank city of Ramallah. As dozens of…
Israeli soldiers attacked Friday participants in a wedding ceremony in the village of Budrus, northwest of Jerusalem, and arrested a 22-years-old man. As soldiers left the village, young residents took…
Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrated against the construction of the separation wall in the village of Bel’en near Jerusalem. The demonstrators stood in front of the bulldozers not allowing them to…
We were in a van about 100 meters down the road from our destination of At-Tuwani, and it had only been half and hour since we had left Jerusalem this…
Tuesday after noon, dozens of residents protested in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah, against the expropriation of lands for the construction of the annexation wall. Israeli soldiers fired…
Undercover border policemen suddenly popped up among anti-wall demonstrators in three occasions during last weeks daily protests in the village of Beit Surik in the Jerusalem region; a tactic aims…
According to an International Solidarity Movement source, American peace activist Flo Razowsky successfully resisted Saturday an attempt to deport her. Razowsky was forced into a departing airplane against her will,…
Friday afternoon, dozens of residents, internationals and Israeli peace activists suffocated after inhaling gas fired by the Israeli soldiers during a procession against the seperation wall, west of Dir Ballout, south…
Wednesday afternoon, dozens of residents were injured in Beit Sorik, North West of Jerusalem after soldiers fired at anti-wall protesters. A local source in Beit Sorik reported that soldiers fired…
The following is an interview with Brian Avery, an American ISM activist shot in the face by the Israeli Occupation Forces in Jenin in April, 2003. When he was shot,…
The Israeli Supreme Court of Justice has ruled a new investigation into the shooting of the US peace activist Brian Avery two years ago in the West Bank city of…
Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protesters in Tal Rmeida neighborhood in Hebron , after dozens of residents and international peace activists protested against a settlement road which soldiers intend to…
Two-and-a-half years after they were evicted by settlers, the Palestinian of the village of Gawish in the south-Hebron hills on Saturday returned to their homes. Gawish, which is close to…
As the construction of the separation wall continues, residents of the Palestinian villages north of Jerusalem organized a meeting in the village of Bir Nabala on Thursday in which they…