Category: Press Releases

  • Al-Haq: End the Siege of the Gaza Strip

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ref.: 01.2008E 21 January 2008 On Sunday 20 January 2008, Israel’s ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip, including the blocking of fuel supplies, forced Gaza’s only power plant to shut down, plunging over 800,000 Palestinians into darkness. According to the General-Director of the plant, the shortage of electricity caused by the lack…

  • Relief convoy to Gaza on Global Day of Action, January 26th

    LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON GAZA!! Saturday 26.1.08: A countrywide relief convoy and Israeli demonstration in solidarity on the Gaza border with a parallel Palestinian demonstration in the Strip. On Saturday, 26 January 2008, a humanitarian convoy of supplies headed by peace and human rights organisations will go from Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva…

  • GAZA: AN ISRAELI CALL FOR URGENT ACTION

    We, the Israeli organizations signed below, deplore the decision by the Israeli government to cut off vital supplies of electricity and fuel (and therefore water, since the pumps cannot work), as well as essential foodstuffs, medicines and other humanitarian supplies to the civilian population of Gaza. Such an action constitutes a clear and unequivocal crime…

  • Scores protest the illegal Israeli Wall near Bethlehem

    Al-Khader- Bethlehem About 200 Palestinians and their international and Israeli supporters protested the illegal Israeli Wall being built on the lands of Al Khader village south of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank. The protest started with the Friday prayers that were conducted at the nearby Al Nashahs Israeli army checkpoint…

  • 23 Palestinians killed, 55 blessed (wounded) inside Gaza by IDF: where is the EU strong condemnation of these murders?

    BY LUISA MORGANTINI VICEPRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Strasbourg , 17th January “23 Palestinians killed and other 55 blessed (wounded), children, women and men, by Israeli raids in only two days: where is the EU strong condemnation of these murders?” -asked Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament expressing a deep concern regarding the…