Category: Press Releases

  • 15 Arrested in Bethlehem Demo incl. PLO Executive Committee Member

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 28 March 2010 Israeli forces arrested 15 demonstrators, including Abbas Zaki of the PLO Executive Committee, during a Bethlehem demonstration to mark Palm Sunday and protest Israeli restrictions on movement. An AP photographer and four members of local popular committees were also arrested. About 200 demonstrators set out from the Church…

  • Israeli Army Kills 16 Year Old Demonstrator Near Nablus

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 20 March 2010 Mohammed Ibrahim Qaddous, 16, was shot dead with live ammunition when a Border Police force raided his village of Iraq Burin near Nablus to quash a demonstration this afternoon. Another 16 year old was shot in the head and critically injured. Qaddous was shot at 3pm this afternoon…

  • ISM volunteer shot, hospitalized; ISM co-founder arrested

    19 March 2010 UPDATE: Huwaida Arraf released on 20 March after being illegally under arrest for 31 hours. Eight of these hours were spent standing in the cold in the illegal Halamish settlement. During this time she witnessed the border police by whom she was detained abuse the two Palestinian men who were also illegally…