Category: Press Releases
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A United Front for Peace: Breaking the Siege on Gaza
A United Front for Peace December 2007- May 2008 We, the National Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza (hereafter the National Committee), have adopted the initiative of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme to launch an international campaign for breaking the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip since June 2007. The aim of this…
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PCHR: A Warning from Gaza
PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Release Date: 25 October 2007 Israeli Occupation Authorities Seek to Impose More Measures of Collective Punishment on the Palestinian People, and PCHR Warns of Further Deterioration to Humanitarian Conditions in the Gaza Strip PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva…
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Right of Entry: Adnan and Manal
Adnan Muhammad Hasan Khalil, American citizen of Palestinian descent, emigrated from the West Bank as a youth in 1976 and returned ten years ago to get married. At that time, he applied to the Israeli authorities for Family Unification (FU) in order to secure permanent residency in the West Bank. His wife Manal holds a…
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(Updated) …Blocking the road to Apartheid: Palestinian nonviolent protestors are blocking highway 443
By: Apartheid Masked For another video of the action click here: October 25th, 2007 An anti-apartheid protest today blocked busy Highway 443, one of many highways that run on occupied Palestinian land but are reserved for Israelis only. Israeli Security forces used force to move the demonstrators. Three of the protesters, Blake Murphy, from Boston…
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What is not being said about the Ketziot prison raid
For Immediate Release On October 22nd, at two in the morning, Israeli prison guards from Ketziot prison in the Negev desert began searching the tents and belongings of Palestinian inmates. Searching prisoners’ tents in the middle of the night is a classic form of harassment; keeping people from sleeping. Some prisoners resisted the search due…