Year: 2012

  • Statement No. 7 of the Strike leadership

    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 world…. We have entered a stage of legendary and draining human struggle, where we face…

  • Activists seal off settlement in solidarity with hunger strikers

    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 blocked the entrance of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement today, in support of the Palestinian prisoners’…

  • 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 be happy with. It is not your fault; this is our destiny as Palestinian people…

  • Tel Rumeida: Child settler violence through the lenses of an international activist

    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 were attemptng to enter Tel Rumeida. It was an embarrassing episode for the Israeli occupation…

  • 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 in a show of solidarity, paying respect to their sons, brothers, daughters and sisters suffering…