31st January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied Palestine With the arrest of two international human rights activists at Salem Military Court, in Jenin district, on Wednesday 29th January 2014, the total number of arrests of activists in the ...
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Two international activists arrested on visit to military court
29th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied Palestine On Wednesday 29th January, 2014, two international human rights activists were arrested at Salem Military Court, in Jenin district. The activists, Norwegian and Canadian, were at the court to attend ...
Read More »Two Palestinian fishermen, including child, kidnapped by Israeli forces off Gaza
27th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Monday, 20th January, at about 6:00 am, Yousef Amin Abo Warda (age 18) and his cousin Ahmad Kamal Abo Warda (age 16) left their house to go ...
Read More »Thirteen-year-old boy attacked by settlers then arrested at Checkpoint 56 in Hebron
25th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On Saturday, January 25th at around 2:30 p.m., when a group of around 30 settlers were passing by Checkpoint 56 on Al-Shuhada Street in Hebron, two 13-year-old boys were ...
Read More »Who Profits report: Corporations profit from Israeli prisons
26th January 2014 | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Who Profits released the following report on the involvement of Israeli and multinational corporations in the Israeli prison system: On December 2013, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) responded to a freedom of ...
Read More »Two people were injured and dozens more suffered from tear gas inhalation at weekly demonstration in Bil’in
24th January 2014 | FFJ Media Center | Bil’in, Occupied Palestine Two people were injured and dozens of other civilians, including international solidarity supporters, suffered from tear gas inhalation during Bil’in’s weekly protest against the wall and settlements. This week, ...
Read More »Weekly protest at Kafr Qaddum met with exceptional violence
24th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine On Friday 24th January, 2014, the weekly demonstration in Kafr Qaddum, in the Qalqilya district, was repressed by excessive force, to a much greater extent than on ...
Read More »Gaza: Life beneath the drones
25th January 2014 | Corporate Watch, Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper | Gaza, Occupied Palestine In the Gaza Strip there is no escape from Israel’s drones. Nicknameed ‘zenana’by Palestinians because of their noisy buzzing, the drones (remote control aircraft) are omnipresent. Sometimes ...
Read More »Firms active in the settlements are facilitating abuses of human rights – UN report says
24th January 2014 | European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine | Brussels, Belgium The UN report is the result of a mission investigating Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Information gathered by the mission shows that private firms ...
Read More »Israeli warplanes kill member of Palestinian armed group and his cousin in Beit Hanoun, Gaza
23rd January 2014 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | Gaza, Occupied Palestine In an extra-judicial execution attempt, on Wednesday 22 January 2014, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a civilian car in Beith Hanoun, Northern Gaza. As a ...
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