by Lina Al Saafin 15 May 2012 | Electronic Intifada At around 1:30am Palestine local time I was lying on my side in my bed trying to sleep and doing my best to ignore the queasy feeling in the pit ...
Read More »Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike
by Haitham Hamad 14 May 2012 | Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed Monday to end a weekslong hunger strike after winning concessions from Israel to improve their conditions, the two sides announced. The ...
Read More »Activists seal off settlement in solidarity with hunger strikers
13 May 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Protesters blocked the entrance to the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, meters away from one of Israel’s main interrogation centers in the West Bank. Two protesters were arrested. 50 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists ...
Read More »Thaer Halahleh: “My Beloved Lamar…Forgive me”
13 May 2012 “My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my firstborn child that I have always prayed to God to see, to kiss, to ...
Read More »A letter from Khader Adnan: “Their fate is in our hands”
by Khader Adnan 30 April 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah. Dear free people of the world. ...
Read More »Army Invades three Tulkarem towns
30 April 2012 | IMEMC Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday the towns of Dir al-Ghsoun, Bal’a and Shewika, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, installed several roadblocks and inspected the ID cards of dozens of residents. Israeli soldiers ...
Read More »It’s time to harvest the crop: Accompanying farmers in Gaza under Israeli fire
by Rosa Schiano Translation by Claudia Saba 23 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva Israeli soldiers have already started shooting onto the land along the border of the Gaza Strip. Two injured just in the first two days of ...
Read More »The siege in the sea: Accompanying Gaza’s fishermen under attack by the Israeli Navy
by Rosa Schiano 19 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva To accompany the fishermen of Gaza on their boats, as human shields to protect them, it provides not only an account of human rights violations by Israel, but also ...
Read More »“We will live in dignity:” Palestinian political prisoners begin mass hunger strike
17 April 2012 | Al Haq As an organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of Palestinian human rights, Al-Haq would like to take the opportunity of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day to highlight the ongoing violation of the rights of Palestinians ...
Read More »Israel is paranoid about pro-Palestinian activists
by Gideon Levy 12 April 2012 | Haaretz Israel will not stand idly by as thousands of activists prepare to arrive on Sunday; it will not miss an opportunity to look ridiculous in the eyes of the world. And with ...
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