Category: Features

  • Action Alert: tell Egypt to open Rafah crossing

    19 February 2011 | Gazan human rights organizations The International Solidarity Movement has received a request from Palestinians in Gaza that concerned people contact the Egyptian embassies to ask them to reopen the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza. They have prepared a statement which you can sign and fax to your embassy in order…

  • Dismantling Impunity: Campaign to help Palestinian victims of army abuse

    9 February 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee is proud to announce a new campaign, the “Dismantling Impunity Fund”. This fund will directly challenge Israel’s culture of impunity surrounding the murder and maiming of Palestinians. The fund will be managed by a committee that will include representatives of Popular Committees…

  • Action Alert: End US tear gas & military aid to Egypt, Tunisia & Israel

    6 February 2011 | Adalah NY Egyptians, Americans and people worldwide have been outraged in the last days by the photos, twitter messages and news articles showing that the tear gas canisters fired by Egyptian police at peaceful, pro-democracy protesters in Egypt are “Made in USA.” While we are seeing these pictures now from Egypt,…

  • Funeral held for Palestinian youth killed by settlers south of Nablus

    Funeral held for Palestinian youth killed by settlers south of Nablus

    29 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On 27th January, 20-year old Oday Maher Hamza Qadous was killed by settlers whilst farming between the villages of Burin and Iraq Burin, just south of Nablus. According to family sources, the Palestinian youth was alone and gathering wood when settlers – most likely from the nearby, illegal…

  • Another young stone-collector is killed in Gaza

    20 January 2011 / International Solidarity Movement, Vera Macht It had been only eight days since the last innocent was killed. People die here one after another, killed one by one, without consequences, without justice, without an outcry in the media. Innocent civilians trying to make a living amidst the stifling four-year siege. Palestinian civilians,…