Category: Press Releases

  • CPT: At-Tuwani children’s march to Tuba a success – Palestinians walk on road unused for 11 years

    To learn more about the Christian Peacemaker Teams’ work in Palestine click here 3rd August 2008 At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills: On August 2nd, more than one hundred children and their parents from the South Hebron Hills marched from the village of At-Tuwani to Tuba, calling for an end to settler violence and expansion in the…

  • Yousef Amira, shot in the head by Israeli forces in Ni’lin, has died

    A Palestinian teenager, aged 17, who was left brain-dead on the 30th July after being shot in the head by Israeli forces, died this morning. His funeral will be held in Ni’lin later this afternoon. Photos courtesy of Activestills Israeli forces shot Yousef Ahmad Younis Amera with two rubber coated steel bullets from close range,…

  • Free Gaza: Can unarmed seaborne civilians break the siege of Gaza?

    A press conference at The Journalists’ House, Nicosia At RIK / CBC Avenue 12, Nicosia Monday, 4th August, 2008 at 10.00 a.m. [Camera crews to come early, please, for set up] Inaugurating The Free Gaza Movement Sailing to Gaza DESTINATION: GAZA PORT In August, unarmed Palestinians, Israelis and internationals will sail directly to Gaza without…

  • Bil’in Supreme Court hearing on 3rd August

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Sunday 3rd August Israel’s Supreme Court will decide if the State of Israel is in contempt of court regarding the withdrawal of the Apartheid Wall from the village of Bil’in. Bil’in is a small village close to Jerusalem near the illegal Israeli settlement of Mod’in Illit. The Apartheid Wall skirts around…

  • Palestinian teenager brain dead after being shot by Israeli army in Ni’lin

    A Palestinian teenager, Yousef Ahmad Younis Amira, was shot in the head with rubber coated steel bullets by Israeli forces in the Palestinian village of Nil’in. Photos courtesy of Activestills According to ISM volunteers staying in the village, approximately 200 boys and young men from the village protested against the military presence in the afternoon.…