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Bulldozers arrive in Hajja

Posted on: December 10, 2012
Bulldozers arrive in Hajja

9th December 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Occupied Palestine.

On Sunday 9th December at 4pm the bulldozers rolled into the small sleepy town of Hajja near Kufr Qaddoum, in the northern part of the West Bank. They rolled past the Illegal Israeli Settlements, where many Palestinians from the surrounding villages work, with less workers’ rights than the Israeli Settlers who work in the same factory.

Beneath the factories lies open farmland.  Olive trees run up the sides of the hill, this is the land they’ve come to take. Continue reading


Updated on December 10, 2012
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Palestinian hunger strikers insist on gaining their freedom even if the cost is their lives

Posted on: December 6, 2012
Ayman Sharawnah, 158 days on hunger strike

5 December 2012 | Addameer

Ayman Sharawnah, 158 days on hunger strike

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association expresses its deep concern for the health and lives of five Palestinian political prisoners that are on hunger strike to protest their unjust detention in Israeli Occupation’s prisons. The five current hunger strikers are: Ayman Sharawna (158 days), Samer Al-Issawi (127 days), Oday Keilani (46 days), Jafar Azzidine (8) and Tarek Qa’adan (8 days).

On 3 December Addameer lawyer Fares Zayyad visited Ramleh prison clinic and met with two of the … Continue reading


Updated on December 7, 2012
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500 Israeli soldiers ransack homes in Burqa

Posted on: December 6, 2012
500 Israeli soldiers ransack homes in Burqa

06 December 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Burqa, Occupied Palestine

Around 500 Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Burqa, north-west of Nablus, in the middle of the night, ransacking homes and causing damages amounting to thousands of euros.

Soldiers arrived in over 30 military jeeps at around 1:00 am and broke into 36 houses where whole families were asleep. People in Burqa recounted their horror at finding armed soldiers with dogs surrounding their beds, and at being forced to leave their homes and stand in the rain as the Israeli military carried out its operation. One old woman who complained that the … Continue reading


Updated on December 7, 2012
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One Voice in Gaza: normalization at its best!

Posted on: December 6, 2012
One Voice in Gaza: normalization at its best!

5 December 2012 | The One Democratic State Group, Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine
It has come to our knowledge that One Voice, “an international grassroots movement that amplifies the voice of mainstream Israelis and Palestinians, empowering them to propel their elected representatives toward the two-state solution” has started recruiting youth from The Gaza Strip. This is supposed to be part of its work “to forge consensus for conflict resolution and build a human infrastructure capable of mobilizing the people toward a negotiated, comprehensive and permanent agreement between … Continue reading


Updated on December 6, 2012
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Israeli army demolishes mosque in al Mufaqarah, South Hebron Hills

Posted on: December 4, 2012
Israeli army demolishes mosque in al Mufaqarah, South Hebron Hills

4 December 2012 | Operation Dove

At-Tuwani – On Tuesday 4 December at 6.30 am, two bulldozers together with a Border Police vehicle, four District Coordination Office (DCO) vehicles and five Israeli army vehicles arrived to the Palestinian village of al Mufaqarah, and demolished the mosque.

The mosque was already demolished by the Israeli army one year ago, on November 24, 2011. The inhabitants of the village had just finished to rebuild the mosque last October.

The village of al Mufaqarah belongs to Area C, under the military and administrative control of Israel. Every construction must be approved by the Israeli … Continue reading


Updated on December 4, 2012
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Demonstration in solidarity with Gaza fishermen on Wednesday, 5 December 2012 at Gaza port

Posted on: December 4, 2012
Demonstration in Solidarity with Gaza Fishermen on Wednesday

4 December 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

A demonstration in solidarity with Gaza Fishermen is planned for Wednesday, 5 December 2012, to be held at Gaza Port at 10am.

In the period between Wednesday, 28 November, and Saturday, 1 December, at least 29 fishermen have been arrested, at least 9 fishing boats have been impounded (including a larger trawling vessel), and one boat has been destroyed. The fishermen’s reports are generally the same: they are fishing within the new 6 mile limit … Continue reading


Updated on May 17, 2013
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In new violation of ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces arrest 14 fishermen and confiscate 3 fishing boats: number of arrested fishermen increases to 29 and confiscated boats to 9

Posted on: December 2, 2012

2nd December 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) repeats its condemnation of Israel’s violations against Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip. PCHR is concerned over the escalation of Israeli attacks directed against fishermen since the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip that was stopped following the cease-fire agreement reached between Palestinian resistance groups and the Israeli occupation forces, under Egyptian and international auspices. Attacks against fishermen escalated despite the Israeli authorities’ announcement of allowing the fishermen to fish up to 6 nautical miles off the Gaza shore in the context of the cease-fire. … Continue reading


Updated on December 2, 2012
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March for freedom ride, Palestine

Posted on: November 28, 2012
Freedom Bus Event in the Jordan Valley

28 November 2012 | Freedom Theatre, West Bank

Dear Friends,

Communities in the Jordan Valley and South Hebron Hills are in grave risk of being entirely expelled from their traditional homelands. They are therefore calling on people of conscience to join them in solidarity with their struggle to remain. The March Freedom Ride will provide people from all over Palestine and abroad with this opportunity.

Please help publicize the ride by circulating the text below through your various networks.  Please also invite your friends via the Facebook event notice:  http://www.facebook.com/events/529394713738231

Many thanks,
Freedom Bus Team

March Freedom Ride, Occupied Palestine
17 – 27 March 2013

Resisting … Continue reading


Updated on November 28, 2012
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Ceasefire re-awakens dreams of Gaza fishermen

Posted on: November 27, 2012
Photo by Rosa Schiano

27 November 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip

Photo by Rosa Schiano

Fishermen in Gaza are able to fish six miles from the shore for the first time since 2006 after the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza. Fishermen hope the fishing industry will recover after its almost complete destruction by the siege but say that 6 miles is not deep enough.

Abu Alaa El Amoudi, (A fisherman in the Gaza strip): “Since October 2000 when the Second Intifada began until now the Israeli military do not allow us to enter the sea 3 miles … Continue reading


Updated on May 17, 2013
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Gazans return to the “buffer zone”

Posted on: November 26, 2012
Women hand-harvesting wheat in the Gaza 'buffer zone'

26 November 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip

Women hand-harvesting wheat in the Gaza ‘buffer zone’

After years of being barred from their land, Gazan farmers celebrate their ability to return. Once the terms of ceasefire were announced thousands flocked back to their property that has been vacant for eleven years, though many are still understandably wary.

Jaber Abu Regaleh, who is a farmer from Farahin (which is near the border of Gaza and close to the former buffer zone) said: 

“We are celebrating. Everyone, young men, young women, old people, we are all … Continue reading


Updated on November 27, 2012
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