4 May 2011 | PressTV Palestinian political prisoners in Israel’s Nafha jail have gone on a hunger strike to protest the inhumane treatment of detainees by the Israeli prison administration. Hundreds of Palestinian inmates held in the Israeli military detention ...
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Settlers set fire to Huwwara prayer hall
3 May 2011 | Ma’an News Ultra-orthodox Jewish Israeli settlers raided the northern west Bank town of Huwwara in the early hours of Tuesday morning and according to residents set fire a prayer hall in the local school. Ghassan Daghlas, ...
Read More »Bassem Tamimi: “Our destiny is to resist”
2 May 2011 | Electronic Intifada When I met Bassem Tamimi at his home in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh this January, his eyes were bloodshot and sunken, signs of the innumerable sleepless nights he had spent ...
Read More »American woman hospitalized with head injury and three international activists arrested in West Bank protest
1 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Sandra Quintano, An American 60 year-old women working with the Michigan Peace Team, was evacuated to an Israeli hospital this afternoon, after Israeli soldiers caused her a serious head injury as they demolished ...
Read More »Family house shelled: two children, a woman and a man injured
30 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza “I dreamt of my wife last night, she said the day would have a surprise in store for me”. Nasser Abu Said (37) is pleased: an NGO has confirmed a 2000 dollar ...
Read More »Jordan Valley school named after Vittorio
27 April 2011 | Jordan Valley Solidarity On Monday 25th the first brick was laid for a new school in the Jordan Valley. Volunteers from the Jordan Valley Solidarity working with Ras Al Auja community members have been making mud ...
Read More »Visit to Awarta
29 April 2011 | Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh We finally toured the devastated village of Awarta Wednesday and were stunned at what we saw and heard. On the way, we stopped by a tiny village called Izbet Al-tabib, a village of ...
Read More »Two children shot in the village of Bil’in
28 April 2011 | Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements Today around noon Jamal Atef Al Khateeb (age 15) was shot with rubber bullets in his stomach and mouth, and Nashmi Mohamad Abu Rahma (age 16) was shot with ...
Read More »Izbat Al Tabib set to lose land with creation of wall
27 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement The village of Izbat Al Tabib outside Qalqilya is currently being threatened by the creation of a wall, which will annex 1000 square meters of their agricultural land. The village is situated right ...
Read More »RCF: State again reschedules testimony of Col. Pinky Zuaretz
26 April 2011 | Rachel Corrie Foundation In another round of last minute maneuvering, attorneys for the State in Corrie vs. State of Israel requested that testimony from their highest-ranking witness be postponed. Former Brigade Commander Colonel Pinhas (Pinky) Zuaretz, ...
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