Category: Press Releases
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Israeli human rights organizations to the EU: use Association Council meeting to stop settlements and open Gaza
B’Tselem 15 June 2009 On the occasion of the 9th EU-Israel Association Council on June 15 2009, three prominent Israeli human rights organizations call upon the EU to link the upgrade of EU-Israel relations to respect for human rights and the rule of law. In their letter to the EU Foreign Ministers, the organizations emphasized…
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Bedouin family to search for the body of their missing son
14 June 2009 A Bedouin teenager – Ahmed Salama Eid Abu Hashish, 18 – from the border area east of Beit Hanoun has been missing since 21st April, 2009. His family believe that he may have been killed in the “buffer zone” – an area of Gaza next to the border that Israeli soldiers attempt…
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Israeli forces arrest three solidarity activists in Safa
For Immediate Release 13 June 2009: Israeli forces have arrested 1 Israeli and 2 international solidarity activists in the West Bank village of Safa. Around 7am, Palestinian farmers, accompanied by 15 international and 10 Israeli solidarity activists, attempted to access their land in the village of Safa to pick grape leaves. Located in the north…