Category: Press Releases
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New York protest against detention without trial of Palestinian BDS activist
Adalah NY 17 October 2009 On Saturday forty New York human rights advocates rallied on a cold fall day at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli settlement mogul Lev Leviev to demand that Israel release jailed Palestinian boycott activist Mohammad Othman. Othman, held without charges and in solitary confinement since September 22nd, is from…
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Tree-planting action to re-claim Iraq Burin’s land, Sunday 18 October
17 October 2009 For immediate release: Iraq Burin has achieved the first success of its kind, in which the District Co-ordination Office has entered in to an agreement with the village to return 30 dunums of contested farmland to its rightful owners. It comes on the heels of four fiery weekly demonstrations, where local protesters…
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Palestinian youth run over by Israeli military jeep outside school in Jenin-area village
For Immediate Release: 30 September 2009: Palestinian youth run over by Israeli military jeep outside school in Jenin-area village. At around 11am, Foad Mahmoud Naiyf Turkman, 17 years of age, was run over by a military jeep as he was standing outside of his high school. Witnesses say that the students had finished school and…