Category: Press Releases

  • Israeli organizations call on Norway to divest from the Israeli Occupation

    Twenty different Israeli organizations send an appeal to the Norwegian people to withdraw Norwegian national pension fund’s investments in all Israeli and international corporations which are involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. “We, Israeli organizations …, call upon the Norwegian people to join us in our efforts and to stop investing in the…

  • International Human Rights Workers to accompany Palestinian farmers near buffer zone in Gaza Strip

    For Immediate Release: 8am, Thursday 7 May 2009: Six International Human Rights Workers will be accompanying 12 Palestinian farmers Laytamaat area near Khoza’a, east of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza strip, as they harvest crops several hundred metres from the Green Line. Farmers and international accompaniers were last fired upon in Beit…

  • Release the Palestinian activists arrested in al-Ma’sara

    4 May 2009 After arrests and injuries on Workers Day, Palestinian workers and activists call on trade unions around the globe to increase solidarity On May 1, people from the village of al-Ma’sara and the neighbouring villages in Bethlehem area commemorated Workers Day with a march in protest against the Apartheid Wall. The Wall continues…

  • Palestinians demonstrate against Susiya settlement expansion

    Christian Peacemaker Teams 5 May 2009 Over one hundred Israeli and Palestinian members of Combatants for Peace gathered peacefully in the Palestinian village of Susiya on 5 May to mark the installation in the village of solar panels and a wind turbine which will provide electricity to the Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills.…

  • Seven arrested during non-violent demonstration in Umm Salamouna

    For Immediate Release: 1 May 2009 Residents gathered at 1.30 pm for a weekly demonstration near the village of Al-Ma’sara in protest of the Apartheid Wall that was built on Palestinian land in the villages of Al-Ma’sara, Um Salamouna, Jourat Ash-Sham’ah and Mrah Mu’ala. Israeli forces began to throw sound and tear-gas grenades at the…