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  • Burqa festival marks reclaiming of Mas’oudia land

    Burqa festival marks reclaiming of Mas’oudia land

    6th April 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Burqa, Occupied Palestine Today, the 5th of April, the village of Burqa, south of Nablus, held a march and festival to reclaim parts of their land in Mas’oudia, trying to alter it from area C to area B. The village of Burqa had sent an application to…

  • Eight activists injured by live ammunition in prisoner release protest outside Ofer prison

    Eight activists injured by live ammunition in prisoner release protest outside Ofer prison

    4th April 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine This afternoon approximately 500 Palestinian, international and Israeli demonstrators gathered close to Ofer Prison in Ramallah to protest against the refusal of the Israeli state to release the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners. As part of the current round of talks between Fatah (the…

  • BDS: Bill Gates slammed over links to Israel prison torture

    BDS: Bill Gates slammed over links to Israel prison torture

    Addameer and Palestinian BDS National Committee Palestinian human rights organisations have criticised Bill Gates after it emerged that his charitable foundation is heavily invested in G4S, a private security company that helps Israel run prisons at which Palestinian political prisoners are held without trial and subjected to torture. In an open letter to the Bill…