Category: Press Releases
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Action Alert! Non-Violent Demonstration in Qusin on Friday despite previous Army repression
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 21, 2007 The villages around Nablus have recently seen a rise in demonstrations against roadblocks. In Sarra, and now in Qusin, people are standing up to the bars and cages the Israeli army has erected around the villages. It has not been easy: people have been arrested, gassed, and shot. Despite…
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Peace Activist Wounded by IOF Fire Returns to Sue
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the night of April 5th, 2003, in the west bank city of Jenin, Brian Avery from North Carolina was shot in the face by machine-gun fire from an approaching Israeli Army APC. He did not die, the bullet penetrated his nose, broke the bones in his nose, hit his eye and…
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Qusin Demo Video and Report
Saturday, September 15th, at 12pm, international and Israeli activists joined Palestinian activists and villagers in the village of Qusin to protest the system of control imposed upon them by the Israeli army. The region has seen a rise in demonstrations of this sort recently, with roadblock removal demonstrations happening also in the nearby town of…
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Action Alert: Demonstration in Jayous 10am 8th September
Jaayus, Saturday Sept. 8th at 10:30 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Saturday, September 8th, a demonstration has been organized in the village of Jayous. As the olive season soon begins, more than 30 work permits the local villagers need to access their lands have been denied “because of opposition on the part of security elements.” Many…
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Tear Gas and Sound Grenades replaced with Music and Dancing: Bilin Celebrates…
To view the CNN report on the BIl’in victory celebration see: www.americanhummus.com On Friday, September 7th, the villagers of Bil’in were joined by international and Israeli comrades. Normally they come together every Friday to express their outrage of the unacceptable Apartheid Wall. Normally the day is filled with military violence, tear gas, sound bombs, and…