Category: Press Releases

  • Iraq Burin to demonstrate against the theft of their lands

    24 September 2009 The village of Iraq Burin in the the southern region of Nablus will re-commence its weekly demonstrations this Friday, the 25th of September after a hiatus to observe the holy month of Ramadan. Over 100 dunums (100,000 sq metres) of farmers’ land has been annexed by the illegal settlement of Bracha and…

  • CODEPINK women for peace & the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement

    Code Pink 23 September 2009 The Israeli assault on Gaza at the end of December 2008 and into January 2009 was a tipping point for many with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For CODEPINK it no longer felt possible to sit on the sidelines and do nothing while white phosphorous bombs rained down on the…

  • Action Alert: Palestinian reports sexual harassment in Israeli jail

    Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP) 19 September 2009 Since the last month WOFPP has accompanied, with deep concern, the minor political prisoner who complained of sexual harassment by one of the guards in Hasharon Prison where she was held. WOFPP’s lawyer, Taghreed Jahshan, visited the prisoner many times during the recent period and has…

  • Israeli forces raid Bil’in, beat Popular Committee member

    For Immediate Release: 16 September 2009: Israeli forces raid Bil’in, beat Popular Committee member. Around 1:30am, the Israeli army invaded Bil’in. Soldiers came to the home of Abdullah Mahmoud Abu Rahme , coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, to arrest him. Abu Rahme was not at home at the time…

  • Israeli settlement expansion in South Hebron Hills continues unabated

    Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove 10 September 2009 At a time when the international community is calling for a freeze on new building in settlements and the disbanding of settlement outposts, the settler community of the South Hebron Hills is continuing its expansion unabated. Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement on Ma’on, in the…