Category: Press Releases

  • Demonstrators to protest arrest of prominent grassroots activist Wa’el Al Faqeeh Abu As Sabe

    13 December 2009 For immediate release: A demonstration will be held outside Jelemeh Prison in Haifa at 12pm, Monday 14 December 2009, to protest the arrest of prominent grassroots Palestinian activist Wa’el Al Faqeeh Abu As Sabe. Al Faqeeh, renowned throughout the Nablus region for his tireless campaigning and non-violent action against the Israeli occupation,…

  • Release Bil’in popular leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah

    10 December 2009 As part of a recent escalation of political arrests in Bil’in, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a school teacher and coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee was arrested by Israeli soldiers. At 2am on Thursday, 10 December 2009, seven Israeli military jeeps pulled over at Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s home in the city of Ramallah.…

  • Bil’in leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah arrested during military night raid

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 10 December 2009 As part of a recent escalation of political arrests in Bil’in, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a school teacher and coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee was arrested by Israeli soldiers At exactly 2 AM last night, seven Israeli military jeeps pulled over at Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s residence in the…

  • A portrait of nonviolent resistance in one Palestinian village

    Ellen Cantarow | Huffington Post 8 December 2009 At no time since its 1967 West Bank occupation have Israel’s seizures of Palestinian land and water resources seemed as shocking as the ones attending its construction of “the wall,” begun in 2002. Vast, complex, and shifting in form, the wall appears most dramatically as 25-foot-high concrete…

  • Settlers from Yitzhar burn Palestinian family’s house and cars near Nablus

    6 December 2009 In the village ‘Einabus south of Nablus, three settlers caused severe damage to Palestinian property, setting a Palestinian house and several cars on fire in the early hours of Sunday, 6 December. In total two tractors were completely destroyed by the fire, as well as one car and a mini-bus. The lower…