Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 12 December 2010 For immediate release: Ibrahim Amirah and Hassan Mousa, members of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Ni’ilin, were arrested tonight from his home during a night-time raid tonight. Amirah and Mousa, together ...
Read More »Israel stages night-time Ramallah raid to arrest an international solidarity activist
UPDATE: Eva has now been deported. She was forced on a plane back to Prague at 6am this morning (Tuesday the 12th). 11 January 2009 For immediate release: A raid was conducted in Ramallah’s city centre tonight to apprehend Eva ...
Read More »Israeli detention of Palestinian activists must end
Amnesty International 8 January 2010 The Israeli authorities must immediately release, or bring before a fair trial, three Palestinian human rights activists detained in Israel following their protests against the construction of the West Bank fence/wall, Amnesty International said on ...
Read More »Wave of arrests continue in Burqa village
7 January 2010 The Israeli army has abducted another young man from the northern West Bank village of Burqa. Muhammad Samir, 21 years old, was stopped outside the village by soldiers as he returned from his workplace in Tulkarem and ...
Read More »My Husband: Jailed for Protesting Israel’s Wall
Majida Abu Rahmah | Huffington Post 4 January 2010 On International Human Rights Day in last year, my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah was in Berlin receiving a medal from the World Association for Human Rights. This year on the same ...
Read More »Trapped in the land of Oz
Ofra Edelman | Haaretz 3 January 2010 A complaint to the court ombudsman against Jerusalem District Court Judge Yitzhak Milanov reveals cooperation of questionable legality between the police and Oz, the Interior Ministry unit that deals with illegal foreigners, in ...
Read More »Two young men from Bil’in arrested in order to testify against Popular Committee member still held by Israeli military
3 January 2010 For immediate release: Hamouda Imad Yassin (16) and Ibrahim Khalil Yassin (16), two young men from Bil’in, who were arrested on 29 December 2009 during a night raid on the West Bank village, are still being held ...
Read More »Freedom for Ryan Olander, justice for Sheikh Jarrah: US citizen held in Israeli prisons for over two weeks
2 January 2010 For immediate release: Israeli authorities continue to detain Ryan Olander, US citizen and solidarity activist, who was illegally arrested on 18 December 2009 for his support of Palestinian families evicted from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah. Minnesota ...
Read More »Eight year old boy shot in his head by rubber-coated steel bullet, two arrested during Ni’lin’s weekly protest
1 January 2010 During today’s demonstration in Ni’lin – marking the anniversary of the Fatah movement – one eight year old boy was injured in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet and two teenage boys (15 and 17 years ...
Read More »Israeli Occupation Forces arrest two village youth during night raid in Bil’in early Tuesday morning
29 December 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces arrested two village youth from the small West Bank village of Bil’in early Tuesday morning during a night raid operation there around 2:30 am. Lookouts with the Bil’in Committee for Popular Resistance Against the ...
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