Category: Features

  • Twenty demonstrators injured in Nabbi Saleh

    Twenty demonstrators injured in Nabbi Saleh

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 8 January 2010 For immediate release: As part of a recent surge in popular protest in the West Bank, about 300 demonstrators occupied and blocked the main road in near the Halamish settlement for over two hours. The demonstrators, twenty of which were injured by rubber-coated bullets, protested recent land grabs.…

  • Gaza Freedom Marchers issue the ‘Cairo Declaration’ to end Israeli Apartheid

    1 January 2010 Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to join with Palestinians marching to break Israel’s illegal siege. They were prevented from entering Gaza…

  • New year in Gaza reopens wounds of old

    Eva Bartlett | The Electronic Intifada 31 December 2009 For many survivors of the last Israeli war on Gaza, time has not healed their wounds, physical or emotional. Halil Amal Samouni, 10, still suffers vision problems in her right eye. The shrapnel remaining in her head causes her constant pain and she is unable to…