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Music against the No Go Zone

Posted on: January 31, 2012
Music against the No Go Zone

by Rosa Schiano

31 January 2012 | il Blog di Oliva
Every Tuesday we demonstrate at the Erez border crossing, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern  Gaza Strip. The demonstration started at about 11:00 AM. We headed for the No Go Zone. The No Go Zone is an area taken by Israel that extends along Gaza’s entire northern and eastern border inside Palestinian territory. For all intents and purposes, the No go Zone imposed by Israel is illegal and prevents the farmers from working part of their lands. Those who enter the area are attacked by Israel with live rounds…. Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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West Bank couple, deported to Gaza, recount difficult years in Israeli prison

Posted on: January 30, 2012
Obada Saed Bilal and Nili Zahi Safad (Joe Catron)

by Joe Catron

30 January 2012 | The Electronic Intifada

“This is the life of Palestinian people,” Obada Saed Bilal said one recent morning. “If I hadn’t been detained, I would have been wounded or martyred. I was in detention for over nine years, but I still resist. My marriage and university studies are my ways to keep fighting now.”

Obada and his wife, Nili Zahi Safad, sat in the lobby of the Commodore Gaza Hotel. The Ministry of Detainees in Gaza has temporarily housed them there, along with a number of other former … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Solidarity with Khader Adnan!

Posted on: January 30, 2012
Solidarity with Khader Adnan!

29 January 2012 | The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat

Khader Adnan, an imprisoned Palestinian activist and a spokesperson for the Islamic Jihad party, has been on an ongoing hunger strike since December 17. He is facing severe health consequences for his 43-day hunger strike and needs international support and solidarity to publicize his case and that of his nearly 5,000 fellow Palestinian political prisoners inside the jails of the Israeli occupation. He was transferred today to a hospital and is continuing to refuse food, awaiting the arrival of two Palestinian … Continue reading


Updated on January 30, 2012
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Arraf to CPDS: Israel losing the PR battle

Posted on: January 30, 2012
Arraf to CPDS: Israel losing the PR battle

by Yousef M. Aljamal
30 January 2012 | Centre for Political and Development Studies
For the third week in a row, the Centre for Political and Development Studies (CPDS), a Gaza-based think tank, held a video link to explore issues related to the Palestinian cause, with the presence of Palestinian and international activists. Huwaida Arraf, the co-founder of  the International Solidarity Movement, chair of the Free Gaza Movement, and a prominent Palestinian-American activist, talked to Gaza activists about “The Palestine solidarity movement: Countering Zionist propaganda globally.”
Choosing discourse … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Kufr ad-Dik: At the crossroads of Israeli confiscation

Posted on: January 30, 2012
Standing for Kufr ad-Dik and Palestine - Click here for more images

by Neil

30 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The village of Kufr ad-Dik in the Salfit region of the West Bank has become the latest in a series of villages to launch weekly protests against mass land theft by Israeli occupying forces.


Residents of Kufr ad-Dik took part in their fifth demonstrationon Friday, 27th of January. While this demonstration was short due to weather conditions, the previous demonstration on the 20th of January was much longer. Israeli forces used large amounts of tear gas to repel the protesters … Continue reading


Updated on January 30, 2012
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Stop the Jewish National Fund greenwashing ‘Green Sunday’ February 5, 2012

Posted on: January 29, 2012
Stop the Jewish National Fund greenwashing ‘Green Sunday’ February 5, 2012

27 January 2012 | Stop the JNF Campaign

The Jewish National Fund has designated Sunday 5th February as ‘Green Sunday’, when it encourages people to donate money to ‘plant trees in Israel’.  The JNF claims to have environmental objectives.  Don’t be taken in.  The JNF’s tree planting is a cover for ethnic cleansing.
The JNF exists to acquire land in Israel/Palestine for the sole use of Jewish people.  For more than 100 years, the JNF has been complicit in expulsions of Palestinians from their homes, the destruction of their villages … Continue reading


Updated on April 13, 2012
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A new stage for West Bank popular resistance

Posted on: January 29, 2012
A new stage for West Bank popular resistance

by Dylan Collins

28 January 2012 | The Palestine Monitor

In a hazy room, clouded with cigarette smoke and steam from hot syrup-sweat tea, residents of Kafr ad-Dik and its neighboring villages, along with Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists, excitedly gathered together waiting for the midday prayer to finish. The twenty-seventh of January marked the fourth Friday during which the village of Kafr ad-Dik has staged a nonviolent protest against the annexation of its agricultural land by the Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA).

The village of Kafr ad-Dik, and the greater Salfit District, is … Continue reading


Updated on January 29, 2012
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Detention of Palestinian political prisoners

Posted on: January 29, 2012
Detention of Palestinian political prisoners

by Shazia Arshad

29 January 2012 | Middle East Monitor

FACT SHEET

As candidates prepared for elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in 2006, the Israeli authorities began a campaign of detention and imprisonment to thwart the growing move towards democracy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Israeli authorities began to arrest members of Hamas: 450 were detained in 2005 to prevent their participation in the election the following year; many were held in administrative detention, without trial or charge. Despite this the elections took place and a number of the … Continue reading


Updated on January 29, 2012
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A call from Palestinians in Palestine to join the Global March to Jerusalem

Posted on: January 29, 2012
A call from Palestinians in Palestine to join the Global March to Jerusalem

 
29 January 2012 | Global March to Jerusalem
Join us as we intensify our struggle against forced exile and the system of Israeli apartheid on Land Day 2012. We Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed and uprooted from our lands starting in the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) which resulted in the creation of the millions of refugees who are now living in the Diaspora. Nineteen years later, in 1967, Israel illegally annexed East-Jerusalem and the West Bank in a move which marked the Naksa (Setback), and … Continue reading


Updated on January 29, 2012
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Israel to demolish two houses near Bethlehem

Posted on: January 28, 2012

28 January 2012 | WAFA News Agency

Israeli forces delivered home demolition notices to two Palestinian homeowners in al-Ma’sara, a village south of Bethlehem, under the pretext that they were built without a permit in an area under full Israel control, said head of the village council Samir Zawahra on Saturday.

He said Israeli soldiers placed the notices near the two houses, which were in their final stage of construction.

Zawahra accused the Israeli authorities of plotting to empty the area of its Palestinian residents in order to take over the land for the benefit of nearby settlements.

He said the Israeli … Continue reading


Updated on January 29, 2012
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