31 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “Before my mother’s death we used to be very happy on 1 January, have celebrations and visit people. Now we are all silent in the last hour of each year and ...
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Ni’lin honors its heroes and urges military to “Stay Human”
by Barbara and James 30 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Volleys of tear gas, rubber coated steel bullets and live ammunition is how the Israeli Army met a small demonstration in remembrance of 2 martyrs, in Ni’lin ...
Read More »30 December 2008: The Hamdan family
30 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “When I wake in the morning the first thing I do is remember my children. I come and sit outside and picture them where they used to play. I don’t want ...
Read More »International Women’s Peace Service meet with prisoner released in Shalit deal
26 December 2011 | International Women’s Peace Service The 18th of December was a day of reunion and celebration for many in Palestine. Following a tense wait, several delays and tear-gas attacks by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on their waiting ...
Read More »29 December 2008: Balousha family
29 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “I miss them all the time, sometimes I even go to look for one of them in the house in the split second before I remember they were killed” At around ...
Read More »Israeli navy attacks international observers, injures Palestinian, on monitoring boat in Gaza waters
28 December 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza At 10:55 am, an Israeli naval warship attacked the international observers and Palestinian captain of the Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGAZA) boat Oliva, injuring its captain in an apparent attempt to capsize ...
Read More »Demanding release of Yousef Abdul Haq, lawyer
28 December 2011 | Palestinian Cultural Enlightenment Forum The lawyer Yousef Abdul Haq (Abu Shaddad), professor at the An Najah National University, and coordinator, former President of the Governing Council of the Tanweer Forum, was arrested Wednesday 7/12/2011 at three ...
Read More »Al Jab’a: “If the judge is your enemy, who are you going to complain to”
by Sarah Morand 28 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At first sight Al Jab’a appears as an idyllic Palestinian village, and sitting in a lovely garden under big olive trees, this seems like a perfect escape to ...
Read More »Gaza will not kneel
27 December 2011 | Palestine’s Youth – Local Initiative – the Popular Resistance Activists, Gaza – Palestine Twenty-three consecutive days of horrendous attacks on the Gaza Strip by the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) left more than 1500 Palestinians dead and many ...
Read More »Demonstration in Beit Hanoun three years after Cast Lead
27 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Beit Hanoun Local Initiative remembered the 1,414 Palestinians killed by Israel during its 2008-2009 “Operation Cast Lead” attack on the people of Gaza during a weekly march in the Israel-imposed “no-go ...
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