May 19, 2012 | Killing Without Consequence Killing Without Consequence is a campaign to press criminal charges against Israeli Border policeman Maxim Vinagrodov who executed Palestinian Ziad Jilani on June 11, 2010. In January 2011, the case against Vinagrodov was ...
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Nakba Day: Palestinian group attempts to return to 1948 territories, one arrested
By Ling Lewis 19 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A Palestinian man was arrested at Ni’lin checkpoint on Tuesday, April 15 during a Nakba Day demonstration. The procession successfully crossed the checkpoint which separates the West Bank ...
Read More »Nakba anniversary message
by Mazin Qumsiyeh 15 May 2012 | Popular Resistance On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we ...
Read More »What Thaer Halahleh’s family told me about his release brings joy, but raises troubling questions
by Lina Al Saafin 15 May 2012 | Electronic Intifada At around 1:30am Palestine local time I was lying on my side in my bed trying to sleep and doing my best to ignore the queasy feeling in the pit ...
Read More »Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike
by Haitham Hamad 14 May 2012 | Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed Monday to end a weekslong hunger strike after winning concessions from Israel to improve their conditions, the two sides announced. The ...
Read More »Statement No. 7 of the Strike leadership
by The Central Committee of the Leadership of the Strike 13 May 2012 | Samidoun We have only two options: to achieve all of our demands, or to die Free Palestinian people, masses of our nation, free people of the ...
Read More »Activists seal off settlement in solidarity with hunger strikers
13 May 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Protesters blocked the entrance to the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, meters away from one of Israel’s main interrogation centers in the West Bank. Two protesters were arrested. 50 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists ...
Read More »Thaer Halahleh: “My Beloved Lamar…Forgive me”
13 May 2012 “My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my firstborn child that I have always prayed to God to see, to kiss, to ...
Read More »Tel Rumeida: Child settler violence through the lenses of an international activist
by Sunny 5 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A group of approximately 10 to 15 soldiers displayed their ineptitude in dealing with a group of rowdy settler children, roughly between the ages of 8 to 14, who ...
Read More »Balata Refugee Camp: The toll of human rights violations and imprisonment
by Alex 9 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The 9th May marks the 22nd day of the Palestinian prisoners mass hunger strike. Today as with every day, the prisoners’ families and friends met at Nablus Prisoners’ tent ...
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