Category: Press Releases
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Israeli navy currently attacking Al-Mina, Rafah shore
20:00, 20th October, 2008 – Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian fishermen are currently under attack by Israeli naval forces in Al-Mina, Rafah. The Israeli navy is firing at the beach and at fishermen in the water, damaging their nets and forcing them to retreat onto the land. Live ammunition is as well being fired at…
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Settlers smash Palestinian family’s car while soldiers refuse to intervene during olive harvest in Azmut
At approximately 10:40 on Thursday morning a Palestinian family from Azmut, in the northeast of Nablus, was harvesting their land near the illegal Elon Moreh settlement when a group of five settlers terrorized the family. The settlers, wielding bats and knives, proceeded to attack the family car, smashing all windows and slashing all tyres, before…
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Three injured in Bilin weekly protest
Report by Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bilin To view website click here Friday 3/10/2008 The residents of Bil’in, joined by international and Israeli activists, gathered to demonstrate against the Apartheid Wall and settlement building on the 3rd October. The protesters raised the Palestinian flag and banners to commemorate the Eid, calling for a…
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Former Iraq hostage, assaulted, unlawfully deported by Israel for human rights work, files official complaint
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – Harmeet Singh Sooden, who was held hostage in Iraq for four months in 2005-2006, has filed an official complaint to the governments of Canada and New Zealand and the United Nations for human rights violations committed against him by the Government of Israel in the course of denying him entry to…
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Letter of Palestinian Refugee Organizations to President Mahmoud Abbas
The following letter was presented to President Mahmoud Abbas’s office on behalf of 78 Palestinian organizations on Wednesday September 22, 2008 Dear Mr. President, Greetings of Return We, the undersigned Palestinian refugee organizations, civil society movements and institutions in the Palestinian homeland and in exile are national organizations working to defend the right of return.…