Category: Press Releases

  • Tree-planting action to re-claim Iraq Burin’s land, Sunday 18 October

    17 October 2009 For immediate release: Iraq Burin has achieved the first success of its kind, in which the District Co-ordination Office has entered in to an agreement with the village to return 30 dunums of contested farmland to its rightful owners. It comes on the heels of four fiery weekly demonstrations, where local protesters…

  • Palestinian youth run over by Israeli military jeep outside school in Jenin-area village

    For Immediate Release: 30 September 2009: Palestinian youth run over by Israeli military jeep outside school in Jenin-area village. At around 11am, Foad Mahmoud Naiyf Turkman, 17 years of age, was run over by a military jeep as he was standing outside of his high school. Witnesses say that the students had finished school and…

  • PCHR report on the gender-specific impact and consequences of Operation Cast Lead

    Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) 28 September 2009 In conjunction with the presentation of the UN Fact Finding Mission’s report to the Human Rights Council on 29 September, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) release “Through Women’s Eyes: A PCHR Report on the Gender-Specific Impact and Consequences of Operation Cast Lead”. The Israeli…

  • Free Mohammad Othman now!

    Stop the Wall 24 September 2009 On September 22, Mohammad Othman was arrested by soldiers on the Allenby Bridge Crossing, the border from Jordan to Palestine. He is now being held in Huwara prison as a prisoner of conscience, arrested solely for his human rights work. Mohammad, 33 years old, has dedicated the last ten…

  • Israeli forces target Palestinian cameramen at Bil’in demonstration

    UPDATE: Haitham was released with a condition to not be near the Apartheid Wall. The Israeli solidarity activists were given a condition to not be in the village of Bil’in. For Immediate Release 25 September 2009: Israeli forces target Palestinian cameramen at Bil’in demonstration. Around 1pm, Israeli forces arrested 2 Israeli solidarity activists and a…