24 April 2011 | Palestine Solidarity Project On Saturday, April 23, eight Israeli activists and 24 international volunteers joined residents of Beit Ommar for an action near Karmei Tsur organized by the Beit Ommar National Committee Against the Wall and ...
Read More »Gaza children draw to honor slain activist
24 April 2011 | Ma’an News Agency Children in southern Gaza spent Saturday drawing pictures to honor slain Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni. Over a hundred children and their mothers participated in the memorial event, organized by a charity in Khan ...
Read More »Thousands of Gazans participate in slain Italian activist’s funeral
19 April 2011 | Palestine News Network On Monday, politicians, NGO workers, and activists took part in the funeral of Vittorio Arrigoni who was killed last Friday by a Salafist group in Gaza. Palestinian police officers carried Arrigoni’s coffin and ...
Read More »Vittorio Arrigoni: The man I knew
Nicole Johnston | Al Jazeera English There is a packet of pipe tobacco sitting in my Gaza City apartment. It’s Victor’s. He left it behind the last time I saw him, about one month ago. Anyone who knew Italian activist ...
Read More »Position of the local Palestinian Christian community on restrictions on religious rights (especially during Holy Week)
08 April 2011 | Kairos Palestine The Palestinian Christian initiative Kairos Palestine has issued a statement spelling out the position of the Palestinian Christian community concerning Israeli imposed restrictions on religious rights, especially during Holy Week. The statement notes that ...
Read More »More demolitions in the Jordan Valley
07 April 2011 | Jordan Valley Solidarity On April 7th at 6 am the village of Al Aqaba woke up to find the Israeli Army destroying thier road and two homes. Two Caterpillar bulldozers were with the military jeeps. They ...
Read More »Five Palestinians killed, 40 injured by Israeli missiles in Gaza
08 April 2011 | Palestine News Network Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday that five Palestinians were killed and at least 40 residents, including children, were wounded in several Israeli air strikes and a ground attacks ...
Read More »Gaza: Israeli shelling leaves Palestinian worker dead
05 April 2011 | Palestine News Network One man was killed when tanks bombarded a group of Palestinian workers as they collected construction materials near the northern Gaza Strip’s border with Israel. Palestinian medics announced that Mohamed Shalha, 21, was ...
Read More »Israel okays 942 new settler homes in East Jerusalem
5th April 2011 | Ma’an News Agency Jerusalem city council on Monday approved the construction of 942 new Jewish-only homes in Gilo settlement in occupied East Jersualem, a councillor told AFP. Elisha Peleg, from the right-wing Likud party, confirmed that ...
Read More »PCHR highlights key issues relating to report of UN fact-finding mission on Gaza conflict (the ‘Goldstone Report’)
4 April 2011 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights In light of the media debate and confusion triggered by Justice Richard Goldstone’s 1 April opinion piece in the Washington Post, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) wishes to highlight ...
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