The eviction of the al-Kurd family from their East Jerusalem home is attracting worldwide protest. Upon hearing the news, two recent ISM volunteers who had camped out on the al-Kurd patio for several days picketed the U.S. State Department and ...
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The Guardian: Israeli police evict Palestinian couple from home of 52 years
By Rory McCarthy To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 10th November, click here Israeli police have evicted a disabled Palestinian man and his wife from the home where they had lived for 52 years, in a ...
Read More »Haaretz: Elderly Palestinian couple evicted from East Jerusalem home despite U.S. protest
By Michael Bahl To view original article, published by Haaretz on the 9th November, click here In a pre-dawn operation in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of predominantly Arab East Jerusalem, scores of police officers and IDF troops Sunday evicted an ...
Read More »AFP: Palestinian family evicted from emblematic Jerusalem home
To view original article, published by AFP on the 9th November, click here JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli police evicted a Palestinian family from their east Jerusalem home at dawn on Sunday in the wake of a prolonged court battle with ...
Read More »ISM Gaza: Resistance is plowing the fields of Fukharee
Fukharee, Gaza Strip, Palestine, 11th November 2008 By Donna Wallach On Tuesday 11th November 2008, four international Human Rights Observers accompanied some farmers to plow their fields for wheat, rye and lentils. The day started out with a long walk ...
Read More »Al-Kurd family evicted from their home in East Jerusalem – Eight international solidarity activists arrested from protest camp
Israeli police have evicted the Al-Kurd family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, and arrested 8 international solidarity activists that were staying on the property. The evicted Al-Kurd family have been staging a 3 1/2 month popular campaign ...
Read More »Israeli soldiers terrorise villagers in Zawata
Three households were terrorised by Israeli soldiers in the village of Zawata on Friday night, 7th November. At least twenty Israeli soldiers from the nearby military base at Shave Shomron stormed through the upper parts of the village on foot ...
Read More »FGM: Dignity arrives in Gaza
To view the Free Gaza Website click here Larnaca: The DIGNITY pulled into Gaza at 9:15 a.m. Gaza time after an uneventful trip from Cyprus. The 23 passengers and crew on board were tired but ecstatic that they’d arrived. The ...
Read More »Maan: Third Free Gaza voyage successfully anchors in Gaza port
To view original article, published by Maan News Agency on the 8th November, click here The third Free Gaza ship, the SS Dignity, anchored in the Gaza harbor on Saturday morning after setting sail from Cyprus Friday evening. Aboard were ...
Read More »Second arson attack in Burin in a week
For the second time in one week, Palestinian firefighters were called to put out a fire in Burin, a village south of Nablus. According to eyewitnesses, at approximately 3pm, on Thursday 6th November, Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal settlement ...
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