Category: Press Releases
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Israeli forces shoot young Palestinian girl in Ni’lin
For Immediate Release: 4:30pm, 15 May 2009: A 12-year old girl has been shot with 0.22 calibre live ammunition in Ni’lin Summer Amira, was shot by Israeli forces as she was standing on the roof of her home. Amira was shot in her lower arm, near her elbow around 4:30pm. “Summer and I were standing…
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Israeli organizations call on Norway to divest from the Israeli Occupation
Twenty different Israeli organizations send an appeal to the Norwegian people to withdraw Norwegian national pension fund’s investments in all Israeli and international corporations which are involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. “We, Israeli organizations …, call upon the Norwegian people to join us in our efforts and to stop investing in the…
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International Human Rights Workers to accompany Palestinian farmers near buffer zone in Gaza Strip
For Immediate Release: 8am, Thursday 7 May 2009: Six International Human Rights Workers will be accompanying 12 Palestinian farmers Laytamaat area near Khoza’a, east of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza strip, as they harvest crops several hundred metres from the Green Line. Farmers and international accompaniers were last fired upon in Beit…