Category: Press Releases

  • IMEMC: Against the Wall near Bethlehem

    Peaceful demonstration against the illegal wall and settlements near Bethlehem Polly Bangoriad, 27 April 2007 On Friday midday Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists held a non-violent demonstration near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, protesting against illegal Israeli settlement expansion and the Illegal Wall. Israeli army watch over non-violent demonstration – Photo by…

  • IMEMC: Kidnapping civilians and detaining shepherds in Nablus

    Israeli army detains Palestinian shepherds near Nablus by Ghassan Bannoura, 26 April 2007 The Israeli army detained a group of Palestinian shepherds for several hours south of Nablus city in the northern part of the West Bank on Thursday. Local sources reported that a group of Palestinian shepherds were herding their sheep on farm land…

  • 250 Citizens of Israel are Threatened by their Government to Become Homeless

    Again Demolitions Orders… And Again 250 Citizens of Israel are Threatened by their Government to Become Homeless By Yeela Raanan, Regional Council for the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev (RCUV), April 26, 2007 There are 1,200 members in the El-Uqbi tribe. Today they live in the unrecognized village of Al-Qrein in the Israeli Negev.…

  • British human rights worker arrested in Tel Rumeida under false charges

    British human rights worker arrested in Tel Rumeida under false charges, released unconditionally. by the ISM Media Crew, 26 April 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today at 10:45am, Joanne Crouch, a British human rights worker (HRW), was arrested in the Tel Rumeida district of Hebron. Israeli police at the Kiryat Arba police station tried to charge…

  • Diplomatic Mission intervention unites foreign passport holders with their families;

    the Campaign for the Right to Enter/Re-enter April 26, 2007 (April 26, 2007 – Ramallah) –Israeli border control authorities continue arbitrarily denying entry to foreigners traveling to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The pattern was first identified by the Campaign for the Right to Enter/Re-Enter the oPt in early 2006 when long-time residents returning from…