Category: Features

  • Israeli forces arrest 27 youth in Beit Ommar

    11th March 2009, Beit Ommar village, Hebron region: 27 youth arrested during ongoing closure of Beit Ommar village 27 residents of Beit Ommar village in the Hebron District of the southern West Bank, have been arrested by Israeli forces while the village remains under curfew with a large-scale military operation taking place. At approximately 12am…

  • Disappeared Free Gaza activist Teresa McDermott found in Israel’s Ramleh Prison

    Free Gaza Movement Scottish activist Teresa McDermott has been found in Ramleh prison four days after she was “disappeared” by the Israel government after being forcibly removed from a seaborne Lebanese aid mission to Gaza. In early February Teresa responded to a call for support from internationals from the organizers of a Lebanese humanitarian aid…

  • Israeli forces hold Palestinian youth hostage during invasion of Jayyous

    6th February 2009 The Israeli Occupation Forces continued their most recent assaults on the village of Jayyous, near Qalqilya, invading on the 5th and 6th of February. On the 5th February , Israeli forces invaded at 2pm, imposing curfew on the village until 10pm. The following day, at around 12.30pm, the army once again entered…

  • Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian farmers and internationals in Al Faraheen

    5th February 2009 Israeli soldiers open fire on Palestinian farmers and international Human Rights Workers twice in three days Israeli soldiers again opened fire on Palestinian farmers and international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) on Thursday 5th February, as they attempted to harvest parsley in agricultural land near the Green Line. Returning to farm-land of Al…

  • Urgent call to all social movements

    Open Gaza Borders! We reiterate the need for a call from Palestinian community based organisations and the over 130 grassroots NGOs in the Palestinian NGO Network for an immediate opening of all border crossings currently controlled by Israel and Egypt. Gaza is in the grip of a man-made humanitarian crisis. Thousands of tons of food,…