Category: Press Releases
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Israeli army and police escalate repression of human rights volunteers following Knesset hearing.
In the days since a March 12 Knesset hearing that demonized human rights activists in the West Bank, it appears that Israeli authorities have escalated their repression of volunteers in the Masafer Yatta region of the south Hebron Hills (West Bank). The aforementioned Knesset hearing, held in the “Subcommittee for Judea and Samaria,” was framed…
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Swedish Human Rights Defender on Hunger Strike after Denied Entry and Detained by Israeli Authorities
23 February 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, February 21, 2024 – Israeli authorities at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport have denied entry to a Swedish foreign national and Palestinian human rights defender arbitrarily citing “Public security or public safety or public order considerations”. Samira Khoshbakht, 42, a textile artist and craft…
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Impending Famine, Infectious Disease and Starvation. It is Christmas in Palestine.
Gaza / Occupied West Bank 12/24/2023 Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza are at risk of famine and preventable death from disease as the world’s observant retreat into family and faith to mark the birth of another Palestinian child. In a lightless, treeless Bethlehem, haunting displays capture the specter of a…
