From Christian Peacemaker Teams

At Tuwani – On the morning of Thursday 7 January, 2010, Israeli soldiers attacked and injured Palestinian shepherds from the Musa Raba’i family, as they grazed their sheep in Humra valley, near the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. The soldiers also attacked the internationals accompanying the shepherds and broke a video camera. Before leaving the area the soldiers arrested one of the shepherds, Musab Musa Raba’i.

At around 10:30am Palestinian shepherds were grazing their sheep on privately owned Palestinian land when they saw Israeli settlers observing them from the outpost of Havat Ma’on. A short time later an Israeli army jeep came to the area. After stopping to speak with one of the settlers, three … Continue reading

Video from Aljazeera

EL-ARISH PORT, Jan 6 (Bernama) — More than 10 members of the Viva Palestina convoy were injured, four of them seriously, and seven members arrested by Egyptian police during a protest here Tuesday at 11.40pm local time.

Among those arrested was a Malaysian, Ibrahim Mohd Azmi, a University of Bristol medical student who was a convoy volunteer.

The protest was staged by Viva Palestina convoy members to protest against the decision by the Eqyptian government to bar 59 convoy vehicles from leaving here for Gaza.

Egyptian police acted strongly against the convoy members three hours after the protest was staged at the entry and exit security point at this port.

Four members were seriously injured and had to be taken to hospital for further … Continue reading

By Kim Bullimore, 04.01.2010

Its New Year’s Eve and my team mate and I are on our way to Israel’s Eretz Crossing, one of the 6 border crossings into Gaza which has been repeatedly closed by the Zionist state as part of its illegal collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza. We have joined three bus load of Israeli and Palestinian activists in Jaffa to make the hour long journey to the Gaza border crossing to protest Israel’s ongoing siege. As we wait for the buses in Jaffa, I look around the slowly gathering crowd and recognize some of the faces from demonstrations in the Occupied West Bank: several of the courageous and dedicated activists from Anarchists Against the … Continue reading

Today, Saturday January 2, 2010, 15 Israeli and international solidarity activists joined members of Palestine Solidarity Project and members of the Soleiby family to plant over 100 olive and fruit trees in the Saffa valley. This was the first day of replanting the area, where more than 600 trees and grapevines were destroyed in the past year by Jewish Israeli settlers from the nearby Bat ‘Ayn settlement.

Any activity on behalf of the farmers in the Saffa valley has been repressed by the Israeli military, who have declared the area a “closed military zone”, preventing farmers and activists from entering, for most of the last 9 months, while consistently allowing … Continue reading

video by Yisrael Putermam

On Friday the Israeli military rang in the New Year in Al-Ma’asara by using more force than it has in the past two years of demonstrations to disperse a larger-than-usual crowd of demonstrators. After warning members of the Popular Committee of Al-Ma’asara that they would be arrested if the demonstrations continued in 2010, the soldiers at this week’s demonstration appeared more tense. The march, which contained more than 100 people from the Betlehem District, was dedicated to the 45th year anniversary of the Fateh movement.

Accompanied by a mobile sound … Continue reading