On Wednesday the 7th, another demonstration calling for the release of the four CPT hostage in Iraq was held in al-Manara, Ramallah, at 4:30pm. On the same day, a press conference calling for the release of four was held in ...
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A Week of Palestinian Calls for the Release of the CPT Volunteers Held Hostage in Iraq
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Ramallah, Occupied Palestine] Over the last week Palestinians from across the political spectrum have issued impassioned appeals and demonstrated for the release of the four Christian Peacemaker Team volunteers who were taken hostage in Iraq, three of ...
Read More »Solidarity Demonstrations For the Four CPT Hostages Taking Place All Over Palestine
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tomorrow, Wednesday the 7th, two solidarity demonstrations will take place to call for the immediate release of the four Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) hostages unharmed. In Nablus, a demonstration will take place at 11am in front of ...
Read More »Press Conference of Palestinians Calls for Release of All Civilian Hostages in Iraq; More Solidarity Demonstrations Planned
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today in Ramallah, Ikram al-Sabri, the head Mufti of Palestine, along with several other notable Palestinians called for the immediate release of all civilian hostages in Iraq, with particular reference to the four Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) ...
Read More »Transcript of Palestinian Press Conference Calling for the Release of the Four CPT Hostages in Iraq
Each of the following people spoke in Arabic unless noted otherwise. The following is a transcript of the English translation that was provided by the ISM host. Ikram al Sabri, the head Mufti of Palestine: [Recording starts part way through] ...
Read More »Kiriat Arba Police arrest one Human Rights Worker; IDF assault Human Rights Workers and steal cameras and passport in Tel Rumeida, Hebron
UPDATE: This morning (6th December), the Tel Rumeida Project HRW was released from Kiriat Arba police station without conditions. He was never brought to Jerusalem as the police had threatened. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE One Human Rights Worker from The Tel ...
Read More »Human Rights Worker Refuses Deportation, Put in Solitary Confinement in Tzohar Detention Center, Israel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Andrew Macdonald, a Human Rights Worker from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), is still being held in solitary confinement at the Tzohar Detention Center in Israel. Even though he has been threatened by the Prison Commander, he ...
Read More »Palestinians to Hold Press Conference to Call for Release of the Four CPT Hostages in Iraq
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Harmeet Sooden. Picture taken in January on a farm outside Jenin where he was helping to plant olive trees. Tomorrow (Monday the 5th of December) Ikram al Sabri, the head Mufti of Palestine joined by personal Palestinian ...
Read More »Resistance Continues in Aboud, Despite Israeli Violence
Accompanied by dozens of internationals, between 150 and 200 Palestinian demonstrators arrived at the construction site of the annexation barrier in Aboud which will illegally claim much of the village’s land. This is the third such demonstration against the illegal ...
Read More »Human Rights Worker refuses deportation; Threatened by Police Officer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 01:15 on Thursday morning, Andrew Macdonald, a Human Rights Worker from the ISM, refused deportation from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. The refusal is a protest against the State of Israel’s policy of deporting ...
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