Category: Press Releases
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Israeli forces arrest three solidarity activists in Safa
For Immediate Release 13 June 2009: Israeli forces have arrested 1 Israeli and 2 international solidarity activists in the West Bank village of Safa. Around 7am, Palestinian farmers, accompanied by 15 international and 10 Israeli solidarity activists, attempted to access their land in the village of Safa to pick grape leaves. Located in the north…
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Free Gaza Movement launches its “Right to Read” Campaign
Free Gaza Movement 9 June 2009 In partnership with Al-Aqsa University, the Free Gaza Movement (FG) is launching its “Right to Read” campaign which will use the FG fleet to deliver textbooks and other educational supplies to universities throughout the occupied Gaza Strip. “This is not a charitable endeavor,” notes FG Chair Huwaida Arraf. “Rather…
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Royal Ontario Museum proceeds with unlawful exhibit
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East 7 June 2009 Dear Friends, Later this month, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will be showcasing artifacts illegally seized by Israel in 1967 after it occupied East Jerusalem. In cooperating with the Israel Antiquities Authority to import and exhibit the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ROM would…
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Prevent Alstom from building the Haramain Express Railway
Saudi Arabia awarded French company Alstom a multi-million dollar contract for the construction of Haramain Express Railway, to link the holy cities of Makkah and Madina. Alstom is in violation of international law for its part in the construction of the Jerusalem Light Rail, which will link illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory…
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Playground for bombed kindergartens in Gaza
For Immediate Release: Sunday 7th June, 10:00, Erez checkpoint More than 750,000 children are incarcerated without a trial in Gaza – the largest prison in the world. It is forbidden to send toys and playground equipment into Gaza. The Israeli authorities define even paper and crayons a “Security Hazard”. In defiance of this obituary and…