From Occupied Palestine

ISM: Report of the Beit Sahour IDF raid
KRISTIN RAZOWSKY
Electronic Intifada, 16 May 2003

On May 9, 2003, at approximately 12:40 pm, the Israeli military entered the media office of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Beit Sahour, Palestine. Present were myself -- Kristin Razowsky ("Flo") -- an international from Austrailia who is working with Human Rights Watch, and a local Palestinian woman from Beit Sahour.

Israeli Forces Raid ISM Office
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
Press Release, 12 May 2003

Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestine -- Israeli forces raided the ISM office this morning, confiscating equipment and material and snatching three women. At 12:30pm on Friday, May 9, approximately 20 military vehicles, army jeeps and a large armored personnel carrier (intended for many arrests) surrounded the ISM media office in Beit Sahour.

Murdering Solidarity
JUSTIN PODUR
ZNET, 10 May 2003

Picture this: 20 military vehicles, including an armoured personnel carrier, surround an office in broad daylight. Dozens of soldiers and police proceed to raid and loot the office, breaking equipment, stealing computers, and kidnapping the workers in the office-three unarmed women, one of whom has since been released.

Israeli Army raids foreign activists' HQ
REUTERS, 9 May 2003 10 am ET

BEIT SAHOUR, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops raided a West Bank headquarters used by pro-Palestinian foreign activists on Friday, detaining three women and taking away computers and files, its director said.

The raid in Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, appeared to be part of a crackdown on the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which has deployed dozens of volunteers in West Bank and Gaza combat zones as 'human shields' to protect Palestinians.