Press Releases

by If American Knew 13-minute video: Five women – Palestinian, American, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish – tell stories of humiliation and harassment by Israeli border guards and airport security officials.

Settlers attack Palestinians in Tel Rumeida, Human Rights Workers (HRWs) Detained UPDATE 10:30 PM March 18 The two HRWs were released from Kiryat Arba at 10:05 PM At approx. 17:30 today, Sunday March 18th, two Palestinians, approx. 15 years old, ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This Friday the villagers of Umm Salamuna and neighbouring villages in the South Bethlehem region will protest against the bulldozers which are currently razing their land for the Apartheid Wall. The villagers will hold midday prayers on ...

by TIPH, March 7th A Swedish member of the civilian observer mission TIPH (Temporary International Presence in Hebron) was rushed to hospital after being hit by a big stone in his head outside a Jewish settlement in central Hebron Monday ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Wednesday 7th March the Popular Committee against the Closure of Nablus is holding a demonstration at Huwwara checkpoint against the curfew imposed on the much of the city last week. The General Woman’s Union and a ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Father of five, Ghareb Abdel Ghani Selhab, 47, a resident of Nablus old city who had a heart attack after a tear gas canister was fired into his home, died this morning. He had been in Watani ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This Friday the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine will celebrate its 38th anniversary in the village of Bil’in. Speeches will be held in the village after midday prayers before the march to the Apartheid Wall, ...

UPDATE 3PM – all the activists have been released after being made to sign conditions saying they wouldn’t return to the site of their arrest for 15 days FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Six activists have just been arrested for trying to ...

by ISM Hebron, February 27th UPDATE 6.30PM – Raed has now been released on NIS 1500 bail Hebron settler spokesman, David Wilder, today attacked an Italian film crew making a documentary film about schools in Israel and Palestine. The RAI ...

by the ISM media team, February 27th UDPATE March 1st – Rashid remains in detention in Etzion military detention centre. Rashid was abducted for assaulting a soldier after being beaten by the IOF. UPDATE and CORRECTION February 28th – Mahmoud, ...