Press Releases

From B’Tselem: B’Tselem today urged IDF Chief-of-Staff Dan Halutz and Judge Advocate General Avihai Mandelblit to make public immediately the open-fire regulations that have been given to soldiers in the Occupied Territories. The request follows publication of an IDF report ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Villagers of Bil’in will hold a demonstration against the wall which annexes village land into the Modi’in Elite settlement. In Beit Sira villagers will hold a demonstration against the annexation barrier that will mean the loss of ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 2.10 pm, Eyad Tahar was found dead, drowned in a flood near the annexation barrier. His body was found trapped on the annexation barrier’s razor wire. A valley between Bil’in and Safa (west of Ramallah) has ...

UPDATE: At 2.10pm, Eyad Tahar’s dead body was found. See the latest press release at www.palsolidarity.org for more details. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 7 am this morning, in a flash flood caused by the annexation barrier near the village of ...

1. Thousands of olive trees are being planted on land day demonstrations March 30th 2. Human Rights Worker Attacked near Hebron Settlement March 27th 3. Border Police enter home And beat Palestinians and 75 year old Australian volunteer March 26th ...

By Jane Tel Rumeida- Today, 28th March 2006, at the Tel Rumeida check point, an Israeli soldier lashed out injuring a Palestinian man by kicking him and hitting him with his rifle. Everyone is saying that it is tense here ...

On Land Day, Thursday March 30, thousands of Palestinians, along with Israeli and International activists will hold a series of large-scale peaceful protests. Demonstrations against ongoing Israeli land confiscation have been planned in the villages of Beit Sira (Ramallah area), ...

Jewish settlers attacked American Human Rights’ activist Brian Morgan, outside the Beit Haddasah settlement on Saturday March 25. About 20 settlers, adults and children as young as eight years, kicked, punched and hit Morgan on the head with rocks. He ...

On Saturday March 25 Israeli military placed a notice at the Kalandia checkpoint announcing that from March 27, 2006 only holders of a permit to enter Israel will be allowed to cross the checkpoint to the West Bank village of ...

1. Beit Sira bites back Friday March 24th 2006 2. Bil’in villagers smash settlement Friday 24th March 2006 3. Destruction and Defiance in the Shadow of Bethlehem 23rd March, 2006 by Tom 4. IDF officers targeted again for arrest 22nd ...