Category: Press Releases
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Eleven organizations demand that Mets cancel Citi Field fundraiser for Israeli settlers
Adalah NY 4 November 2009 Eleven organizations from the US, Palestine and Israel have called on baseball’s New York Mets to cancel a November 21st dinner at the Caesars Club at Citi Field for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund. The dinner is a fundraiser for Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank City of Hebron. In…
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A protest vigil will be held in Sheikh Jarrah following a settler takeover of a Palestinian home
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, 4 November 2009 at 7pm: A protest vigil will be held outside the al-Kurd home in Sheikh Jarrah. Following a settler takeover of a Palestinian home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, the al-Kurd family and international and Israeli solidarity groups will hold a vigil. Israeli settlers take over…
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Israeli military stops work to bring electricity to At-Tuwani; confiscates building materials
Christian Peacemaker Team 30 October 2009 At-Tuwani – On Friday 30 October, the Israeli army forcibly stopped the electrical work of the village of At-Tuwani, located in the South Hebron hills. Officers from the Israeli District Coordinating Office (DCO), the branch of the Israeli army responsible for the administration of Palestinian civilian affairs in the…