Category: Press Releases

  • 14 Member Brighton Delegation Arrives in Palestine

    Brighton Tubas Friendship Group arrives in Palestine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 April 2007 Fourteen volunteers from Brighton Tubas Friendship Group arrived in the Israeli Occupied Palestinian Territories on April 5th for a 10 day cultural exchange and fact finding tour. Lasting links will be made between Brighton and Tubas region in Palestine. The delegation includes…

  • This Saturday, Accompaniment in the South Hebron Hills

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 April 2007 This Saturday, Palestinian, Israeli, and international solidarity activists will accompany farmers of the South Hebron Hills to their land. Two villages near at-Tuwani are feeling the effects of illegal Israeli outposts, and the colonizers within them. These colonists, who have been occupying the area for 4 years, often attack…

  • Settlers torch Palestinian car in Tel Rumeida, Soldiers block Palestinian fire trucks

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 April 2007 Palestinian resident in Tel Rumeida: “Settlers have set my car on fire” The Israeli police: “We don’t speak Arabic”. Soldiers prevent fire trucks from accessing the burning car. Last night, Hani Abu Haikal parked his car at 20:30 and walked the 10 minute route to his house through the…

  • Palestinian Christians and the effects of Israeli Apartheid

    Palestinian Chrisitians prevented from reaching Bethlehem on Palm Sunday by Snyder, 4 April 2007 As hordes of tourists flocked to the holy sites of Jerusalem to carry Palm leaves through the Old City, hundreds of Palestinian Christians were prevented from passing through the Bethlehem terminal. On the evening before Palm Sunday, I passed through the…

  • “Martyr Palestine,” A new play in an old Israeli prison

    The first of its kind: Palestinians prepare art demonstration in old Israeli prison by Jameel al-Husni, 4 April 2007 Defying the traditional Palestinian method of denying expressions of the occupation, Wasfi Tayeh, the leader of a local theatre group in al-Far’a refugee camp in the northern West Bank, is preparing a new show. The show,…