by Silvia 21 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Five years ago Abed Seder’s wife, Kefah, was shot five times in the chest by Israeli soldiers as she went onto her roof to check her water tank. She ...
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The world must heed Khader Adnan’s call: Make Palestinian Political Prisoners’ Day, 17 April 2012, a day of international action
21 February 2012 | Samidoun Organizational endorsements are welcome for this statement. Please click here or email april17@palestinianprisoners.org to endorse. “I hereby assert that I am confronting the occupiers not for my own sake as an individual, but for the sake of thousands of ...
Read More »Despite the announcement of a deal limiting Khader Adnan’s detention, Addameer reiterates its urgent concern for his health
21 February 2012 | Addameer *At approximately 7:50 PM local time, it was confirmed by Ran Cohen, Executive Director of Physicans for Human Rights-Israel, that Khader Adnan has ended his hunger strike. Khader Adnan’s hearing at the Israeli High ...
Read More »The massacre of 1929 and the War of Narratives
by Aaron 21 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank If you ask an Israeli settler in or around Al-Khalil (Hebron) what calls them to live on contested land, most will speak to a religious connection to the city ...
Read More »Gaza sit-in, rally back Khader Adnan; general strike set for Tuesday
by Joe Catron 20 February 2012 | Mondoweiss Every Monday morning the families of 445 Gaza Palestinians detained by Israel occupy the courtyard of Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters to demand that the ICRC fulfill its obligation ...
Read More »Palestinian activist to judge: I do not recognize your rules
20 February 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bassem Tamimi from Nabi Saleh testified yesterday as part of the defense’s case in the ongoing trial against him. Tamimi, suspected of protest related charges, was arrested on March last year, and ...
Read More »Closed shops, empty pockets: Israel’s policy of economic strangulation in Hebron
by Paige L 20 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Walking down Shuhada Street in occupied Hebron (al-Khalil) is an eerie experience even during peek commercial hours in the rest of the city. Nearly empty streets are framed ...
Read More »Jewish settlers and policemen defile Aqsa Mosque, clash with Muslim worshipers
19 February 2012 | Palestine Information Center OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A group of Palestinian worshipers holding a vigil inside the Aqsa Mosque have fended off dozens of fanatic Jewish settlers who tried on Sunday morning to desecrate the Islamic holy ...
Read More »Kufr Qaddoum: 5 people injured in demonstration
by Veronica 17 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In advance of last week’s regular demonstration in Kufr Qaddoum the Israeli military attempted to prevent it by turning off the electricity supply to the village from 4AM that ...
Read More »Women Studies Center of Nablus: Women’s rights are Palestinian rights
by Jonas Weber 18 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “We rented this house since a year back,” says Randa Bashir as she looked around in the brightly lit meeting room at the Women Studies Centre in Nablus. Like ...
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