15 October 2010 | Palestine Solidarity Campaign LONDON – October 15 – A ship loaded with vehicles and aid for Gaza is due to leave Syria for Egypt this Sunday, carrying members of Palestine Solidarity CampaignUK. The ship will pass ...
Read More »Turkey will not attend OECD conference, minister says
12 October 2010 |ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Turkey will not send any delegation to a biannual tourism conference in Israel later this month, the country’s culture minister said Tuesday, marking the first boycott of Israel on a multilateral level ...
Read More »Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah sentenced to a year in prison
11 October 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bil’in protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment today, for his involvement in his village’s unarmed struggle against the wall. Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced today to 12 ...
Read More »PCHR Condemns Continued Detention of Islamic Jihad Leader in Violation of Law
5 October 2010 http://www.pchrgaza.org The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the continued illegal detention of Khader ‘Adnan Mousa, 32, a leader of Islamic Jihad, from ‘Arraba village southwest of Jenin, by the General Intelligence Service (GIS). PCHR is ...
Read More »IDF still using banned weapon against civilian protestors
Chaim Levinson | Ha’aretz 19 September 2010 The Israel Defense Forces continues using the Ruger 10/22 rifle to disperse protests even though it has been prohibited by the military advocate general, a hearing at a military court revealed last week. ...
Read More »B’Tselem: Probe IDF soldiers over deaths of Palestinian civilians
16 September 2010 | Haaretz New report concludes no IDF soldier has been indicted for such deaths over the last four years [The full report can be accessed here – file opens as pdf] A new report by the human ...
Read More »Israeli police accused of targeting Jerusalem’s Arab residents
11 September 2010 | The Independent A leading civil-rights group has accused Israeli police of systematic discrimination against the Arab residents of East Jerusalem as growing numbers of hardline religious Jews take up residence in Palestinian areas. A report from ...
Read More »Why Israel imprisoned my best friend
2 September 2010 | Mohammed Khatib, The Electronic Intifada When I was a boy I was still allowed to travel in Israel. I went to the beach and swam in the sea, something that most Palestinian children living in the ...
Read More »Israeli academics boycott West Bank settlements
31 August 2010 | BBC News More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In a letter, they said they supported the recent decision by a group of ...
Read More »Israeli actors to boycott new West Bank theatre
29 August 2010 | The Guardian 60 actors, writers and directors argue that performing in occupied territories would legitimize illegal settlements Dozens of Israeli actors, playwrights and directors have signed a letter refusing to take part in productions by leading ...
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