Campaign: A message from Moira Jilani

Campaign: A message from Moira Jilani

By Moira Jilani

22 May 2012 | Killing Without Consequence

My beloved husband, Ziad Jilani, was executed by Israeli Border Policeman, Maxim Vinogradov on June 11, 2010. There is undeniable evidence that my husband was lying unarmed and wounded on the ground, posing no threat when Israeli Border Policeman Maxim Vinogradov shot him point blank in the head. Despite the multiple contradictions, revisions and blatant lies in the testimony of the soldier who killed him, exposed by the autopsy, the Israeli authorities have closed the case against Maxim Vinogradov and his commander Shadi Kheir Al-Din.

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Campaign: Killing Without Consequence

May 19, 2012 | Killing Without Consequence
Killing Without Consequence is a campaign to press criminal charges against Israeli Border policeman Maxim Vinagrodov who executed Palestinian Ziad Jilani on June 11, 2010. In January 2011, the case against Vinagrodov was closed despite forensic evidence and eye witness reports.
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If the Israeli government is pressured to charge Vinagrodov, it will demonstrate to other soldiers that there are consequences for killing Palestinians. To help demand justice for the actions of Israeli soldiers, sign the petition. On July 11th, participate in … Continue reading

Nakba anniversary message

by Mazin Qumsiyeh

15 May 2012 | Popular Resistance

 On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more.  But we also celebrate an amazing resilience and success of the Palestinian endogenous people against incredible odds:

-We just celebrated the success of a hunger strike by over 1600 political prisoners despite attempts to stifle the story in Zionist dominated Western media. They succeeded in achieving a part of their basic rights including receiving family visits and ending solitary confinement.

-We are 11.5 million … Continue reading

What Thaer Halahleh’s family told me about his release brings joy, but raises troubling questions

by Lina Al Saafin

15 May 2012 | Electronic Intifada

At around 1:30am Palestine local time I was lying on my side in my bed trying to sleep and doing my best to ignore the queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach as I thought about how the 64th commemoration of Nakba Day would pan out.

My phone suddenly vibrated jarringly. I grabbed it and the name of the last person I expected to call me was flashing on the screen: Abu Thaer Halahleh, the father of Palestinian hunger striker Thaer Halahleh. I immediately answered.

What I learned in the conversation was a … Continue reading

Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike

by Haitham Hamad

14 May 2012 | Associated Press

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed Monday to end a weekslong hunger strike after winning concessions from Israel to improve their conditions, the two sides announced.

The deal ended a strike in which prisoners had gone without food for up to 77 days, leaving several prisoners in life-threatening condition. It was the longest strike ever staged by Palestinians in Israeli custody.

With the Palestinians set to hold an annual day of mourning on Tuesday, both sides were eager to wrap up a deal to lower tensions. The Palestinians are … Continue reading

Activists seal off settlement in solidarity with hunger strikers

Activists seal off settlement in solidarity with hunger strikers

13 May 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

Protesters blocked the entrance to the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, meters away from one of Israel’s main interrogation centers in the West Bank. Two protesters were arrested.

50 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists blocked the entrance of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement today, in support of the Palestinian prisoners’ massive hunger strike, now on its 27th days.

The protesters managed to halt traffic at  the entrance to the settlement for about 20 minutes, before Israeli forces managed to remove them from … Continue reading

Thaer Halahleh: “My Beloved Lamar…Forgive me”

13 May 2012 

“My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my firstborn child that I have always prayed to God to see, to kiss, to be happy with. It is not your fault; this is our destiny as Palestinian people to have our lives and the lives of our children taken away from us, to be apart from each other and to have a miserable life. Nothing is complete in our lives because of this unjust occupation that is lurking on every corner of our lives … Continue reading

A letter from Khader Adnan: “Their fate is in our hands”

by Khader Adnan

30 April 2012  | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee
In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful,
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah.

Dear free people of the world. Dear oppressed and disenfranchised around the globe. Dear friends of our people, who stood with me with a  stern belief in freedom and dignity for my people and our prisoners languishing in the Occupation’s prisons.

Dear free women and men, young and elderly, ordinary people as well as intellectual elites everywhere – I address you today with an
outpouring of hope and pain … Continue reading

Army Invades three Tulkarem towns

30 April 2012 | IMEMC
Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday the towns of Dir al-Ghsoun, Bal’a and Shewika, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, installed several roadblocks and inspected the ID cards of dozens of residents.
Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday the towns of Dir al-Ghsoun, Bal’a and Shewika, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, installed several roadblocks and inspected the ID cards of dozens of residents.

Local sources reported that five armored Israeli military vehicles invaded Shewika area and installed a roadblock on its main road before stopping dozens of … Continue reading

It’s time to harvest the crop: Accompanying farmers in Gaza under Israeli fire

Renad Salem Qdeeh

by Rosa Schiano
Translation by Claudia Saba

23 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva


Israeli soldiers have already started shooting onto the land along the border of the Gaza Strip. Two injured just in the first two days of the harvest.
Renad Salem Qdeeh, 33, was collecting he crop from her land when Israeli soldiers started shooting, at around 7.30am or 8am. The other farmers managed to escape, but Renad started screaming as she was hit in the head while standing about 800 meters … Continue reading


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