Category: Press Releases

  • Stolen Beauty: the struggle for a just peace in the Middle East coming to a store near you

    Code Pink 21 July 2009 As the dust settled on the destroyed homes, schools and lives in the aftermath of Israel’s assault on Gaza earlier this year, mainstream human rights groups from Amnesty International to Physicians for Human Rights/Israel issued reports condemning Israel’s attack and alleging that the Israeli government and the Israeli Defense Forces…

  • Israeli forces arrest Palestinian on his return from testifying to the UN in Geneva

    Update: According to his legal representation, Mohammad Srour will be released on bail. For Immediate Release: 22 July 2009: Israeli forces arrest Palestinian on his return from testifying to the United Nations in Geneva. Mohammad Srour was arrested on 20 July 2009 while crossing the Allenby Bridge from Jordan. Srour and Jonathan Pollack, an Israeli…

  • Bil’in leading demonstrator imprisoned by Israeli forces

    For Immediate Release: Tuesday July 21, Ofer military base, Occupied West Bank: In a new escalation in the military’s campaign targeting the popular protests in Bil’in against the Annexation barrier, a military appeals judge ruled that non-violent Bil’in activist Adeeb Abu Rahme be held until the end of proceedings against him. This could mean months…

  • CPT: Israeli military delivers stop work orders on 9 Palestinian structures in At-Tuwani

    Christian Peacemaker Team 20 July 2009 At-Tuwani – In the afternoon of 20 July, the Israeli District Coordinating Office (DCO) delivered stop work orders for nine Palestinian structures around the village of At-Tuwani. These orders were delivered to seven new houses, one cave, and one cistern in the area. The Israeli military sometimes delivers a…

  • IMORB: End the siege on Gaza, open the Rafah border

    Dear friends, Please take a few minutes on Monday to call the Egyptian embassy in your country to demand the Rafah border be opened! Since June 13, when International Movement to Open the Rafah Border members set their sit-in at the Rafah Gate, we witnessed the Egyptian authorities’ collaboration in the Gaza siege enforced by…