Get Updates
Ram, Palestine 28 April 2002
‘Greetings from your friend Alaa’, starts a message from one of my best friends in Nablus. We used to be neighbors in a neighborhood called Ras al-Ain. Since Israeli forces entered the city, we had been out of touch. Read more about Nablus, the meaning of state terror
Gaza City, Palestine 27 April 2002
I heard the shooting from the balcony of my apartment. Ismail, Yusuf, and Anwar tried to infiltrate the Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night. Read more about Gaza: war on the horizon
Jenin, Palestine 27 April 2002
It’s a difficult thing to comprehend a willing descent into a place of mass suffering. Usually, such things are random and so temporary that one cannot plan for it. Read more about Jenin: Not of this Earth, Part I
Beit Hanina, Palestine 25 April 2002
Since the 29th of March this year the majority of Palestinian towns, cities and villages have come under sustained systematic attack from the Israeli army. Read more about Curfew, closure, re-occupation and isolation
Ram, Palestine 25 April 2002
I cannot avoid reading history over and over again. I am not thinking of recent history in former Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, or even apartheid South Africa, when listening to daily reports of what is happening around me. I am thinking of recent local and regional history. Read more about History repeats itself
East Jerusalem, Palestine 24 April 2002
“The Israeli police evacuates Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah”, I wrote on the website yesterday. It is a long complicated story. Imaan, a colleague, is willing to explain it to me. Last week she visited the families when they were still living in their homes. Read more about What is justice?
Gaza City, Palestine 24 April 2002
Yesterday, a group of Palestinian children marched to UNDP’s and UNICEF’s Gaza Office to hold a peaceful demonstration. A delegate from the Young Journalist Club made a speech and handed out a manifesto in support of Palestinian children’s rights. Read more about Children of Palestine Manifesto
Bethlehem, Palestine 23 April 2002
Over three weeks of curfew makes life somehow timeless. The muezzin and church bells are silent, except for the ‘opening hours’ when we are allowed to leave home. Read more about Letter from Bethlehem (April 15-22, 2002)
Ram, Palestine 5 August 2002
‘Ala, who lives in Nablus, started to write his long awaited ‘Love in the Time of Curfew’, a title he borrowed from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ novel, ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’. Read more about Nablus: 'In the Time of Curfew'
Ramallah, Palestine 23 April 2002
ISM volunteers Richard Johnson and Sofia Ahmed witnessed two young boys “blown up” in a small field in Jenin Camp yesterday. Sofia reports being only 40 meters away when something exploded. “Although we can’t be positive what it was that exploded, four days ago we saw Israeli soldiers on foot in the exact same place.” Read more about Update from ISM