Category: Press Releases

  • Iraq Burin to demonstrate against the theft of their lands

    24 September 2009 The village of Iraq Burin in the the southern region of Nablus will re-commence its weekly demonstrations this Friday, the 25th of September after a hiatus to observe the holy month of Ramadan. Over 100 dunums (100,000 sq metres) of farmers’ land has been annexed by the illegal settlement of Bracha and…

  • CODEPINK women for peace & the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement

    Code Pink 23 September 2009 The Israeli assault on Gaza at the end of December 2008 and into January 2009 was a tipping point for many with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For CODEPINK it no longer felt possible to sit on the sidelines and do nothing while white phosphorous bombs rained down on the…

  • Action Alert: Palestinian reports sexual harassment in Israeli jail

    Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP) 19 September 2009 Since the last month WOFPP has accompanied, with deep concern, the minor political prisoner who complained of sexual harassment by one of the guards in Hasharon Prison where she was held. WOFPP’s lawyer, Taghreed Jahshan, visited the prisoner many times during the recent period and has…