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Take Urgent Action: Appeals Decision Delayed as Khader Adnan Dying to Live

Posted on: February 12, 2012
Take Urgent Action: Appeals Decision Delayed as Khader Adnan Dying to Live

12 February 2012 | Samidoun- Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Khader Adnan, Palestinian political prisoner being held under administrative detention, is now entering his 57th day of hunger strike and facing a severe health crisis.  Despite the fact that Khader Adnan risks death with every minute that passes, the Israeli military court system is delaying decisions in his case and further prolonging his unjust imprisonment. This delay shows utter disregard for Khader Adnan’s life, health and humanity. Write now … Continue reading


Updated on February 12, 2012
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88 Palestinian houses to be demolished for Israeli park

Posted on: February 12, 2012
88 Palestinian houses to be demolished for Israeli park

11 February 2012 | Al Haq


Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem continue to face an increased threat of home-demolition and forced eviction. The neighbourhood of Silwan, located to the south of the old city of Jerusalem, and with a population of over 50,000 Palestinians, is at particular risk. The city municipality, whose unilaterally drawn borders were established by Israel in 1967 when East Jerusalem was illegally annexed, plans to demolish 88 Palestinian homes in al-Bustan area in the centre of Silwan (see map below) to make … Continue reading


Updated on February 13, 2012
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In photos: On hunger strike in Gaza

Posted on: February 10, 2012
In photos: On hunger strike in Gaza

by Mya Guarnieri

10 February 2012 | Alternative Information Center

A number of Gazans have joined Khader Adnan’s hunger strike to protest the inhumane conditions that Palestinian political prisoners face in Israeli jails. Israel often holds Palestinians in administrative detention without charges, depriving detainees of their right to due process.

Adnan has been on hunger strike for 55 days and is currently hospitalized in Israel. While Adnan and his lawyers is contesting his administrative detention, the Israeli judge who heard the case yesterday declined to issue an immediate decision. Addameer Prisoner Support … Continue reading


Updated on February 10, 2012
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Settlers attack demo in Qaryut

Posted on: February 10, 2012
Photos by Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

10 February 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee
Demonstrators in Qaryout attempted to plant olive trees to resist land grab. On the way, they were attacked by settlers and the army.


Approximately 100 residents of the Qaryout joined the weekly protest against the occupation this week, aiming to plant olive trees on their lands, as an action against confiscation of lands by neighboring settlements. One of main legal mechanisms used by Israel to expropriate Palestinian land is the Ottoman Land Law of 1858, which … Continue reading


Updated on February 12, 2012
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Entering the deadly zone, demonstration in front of Erez

Posted on: February 7, 2012
A Palestinian plays football in the no go zone near Erez during the weekly demonstration against the occupation in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Every Tuesday Palestinians and supporters march from Beit Hanoun into the "buffer zone" or "no go" zone , where the fertile land has been made inaccessible to Palestinians due to the imminent danger of shooting by the Israeli army.

7 February 2012 | Chroniques de Palestine


Since 2008, demonstrations are organized in front of Erez in Beit Hanoun. This is in defiance of the “no go zone” imposed unilaterally by the Israelis. Any person who approaches the Green Line is under risk of being shot at. In fact many farmers; or rubble collectors have been shot in these border areas. The “no go zone” is not really defined. The Israelis announced a 300 meters line not to be crossed but people have been shot as far … Continue reading


Updated on February 7, 2012
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International strategy for Palestinian prisoners needed

Posted on: February 4, 2012
Maali, daughter of jailed Islamic Jihad spokesman Khodr Adnan, stands next to a picture of her father as she takes part in a protest outside Israel's Ofer prison near the West Bank town of Betunia on 30 January 2012. (Photo: AFP - Abbas Momani)

by Joe Catron

2 February 2012 | Al Akhbar English

“Any movement that does not support its political internees is a sham movement.” – US political prisoner Ojore Lutalo

Political prisoners, their families, and their concerns and causes enjoy massive support in Palestinian society. Palestinians who may have never joined a boycott campaign or acted to break the siege of Gaza routinely demonstrate for the rights of detainees and contribute to support their families. Among political factions, the liberation of all prisoners is a clear point of consensus. Competing parties demand and celebrate … Continue reading


Updated on February 4, 2012
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Donor Opium: The impact of international aid to Palestine

Posted on: February 3, 2012

3 February 2012 | Donor Opium

For twenty years now the international donor community has financially supported Palestinian institution-building, infrastructure development, the economy, public employees’ salaries, health and education, social welfare, the police, electricity production, private credit guarantees, and the bigger part of the civil society organizations with regards to democracy promotion, human rights, tolerance, women rights etc.

Peace and the establishment of a Palestinian state have been the declared goals of all the support. But actual results are the fragmentation and pacification of the Palestinian people.

This documentary film, directed by Mariam Shahin and George Azar, and funded by the Rosa Luxemburg … Continue reading


Updated on February 3, 2012
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13 injured in Nabi Saleh during weekly non-violent protest

Posted on: February 3, 2012
13 injured in Nabi Saleh during weekly non-violent protest

3 February 2012 | International Middle East Media Center

During the weekly non-violent protest in the village of an-Nabi Saleh on Friday several injuries were reported including that of a French citizen who was struck in the neck by an Israeli projectile.

The young woman, reported to be named Amessi, was struck in the neck, initially thought to be by a tear gas canister, but later reported to be a rubber coated steel bullet. As of yet reports remain conflicted.The young woman was cut by the shot and lead to bleeding from the wound.

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Updated on February 4, 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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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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