Year: 2012
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International Women’s Day Marks Hana Shalabi’s 22nd Day of Hunger Strike
8 March 2012 | Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations We, the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organisations (PCHRO), would like to mark International Women’s Day by expressing our solidarity with administrative detainee Hana Shalabi. Hana is today beginning her 22nd successive day of hunger strike in protest at her internment without charge or trial and…
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Al Walaja: Tunneling to get home
by Ramon Garcia 8 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Some Palestinians and Internationals gathered in the village of Al Walajeh on International Women’s Day to show solidarity to Omar and his family, especially his wife ,whose health has suffered from Israeli occupation in the small village. Sherinne Alaraj of the local…
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Declaration of Support for the Global March to Jerusalem
6 March 2012 | Global March to Jerusalem We, the Advisory Board of the Global March to Jerusalem, are alarmed and deeply troubled by the continuing repression of Palestinians in Jerusalem and by the deliberate and systematic attempts to expel and reduce the Christian and Muslim Palestinian population of the city as part of the…
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Israeli troops kill a Palestinian youth; Injures and arrest another
by Ghassan Bannoura 8 March 2012 | International Middle East Media Center Twenty-two years old Zakariay Abu Iram was killed while Mohamed Rashid, 18, was injured and arrested by Israeli troops as they attacked the southern West Bank village of Yatta on Thursday afternoon. Residents told IMEMC that Israeli troops stormed the village and tried…
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Gaza rally for Hana Shalabi on International Women’s Day
by Joe Catron 8 March 2012 | Mondoweiss Hundreds of Palestinian women filled the street outside Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross this morning, marking International Women’s Day by demanding the release of administrative detainee Hana Shalabi on the 22nd day of her open hunger strike. The rally contained Palestinian women of every age,…
