Category: Press Releases
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Ambulance to attempt to transfer hunger striker to hospital in Ramallah
9th February 2016 | Hebron, occupied Palestine On Wednesday February 10th, 18:00 supporters will arrive at the hospital in Afula, accompanied by an ambulance and doctors, to transfer Mohammed Al-Qeeq for medical treatment in the Ramallah hospital. Journalist Mohammed Al-Qeeq is on the 77th day of hunger strike and fighting for his life. He has…
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100 days of collective punishment for Hebron residents
7th February 2016 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, occupied Palestine February 8th marks one hundred days since Israeli forces declared the Tel Rumeida neighborhood and the adjacent portion of Shuhada Street a “closed military zone,” requiring residents to register with the Israeli military and be assigned numbers in order to be allowed to access…
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CALL TO ACTION! Join Twitterstorm to #EndHebronMilitaryZone
Three months ago, in the wake of two extrajudicial executions committed by Israeli forces in Tel Rumeida, Israeli military authorities forced Palestinians living in the neighborhood to register and receive numbers in order to be allowed to reach their homes. Everyone else, including family members, media and Palestinian and international human rights defenders are barred…
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ACT NOW ! Put an end to the ‘Closed Military Zone’ in Tel Rumeida and Shuhada Street, Hebron
11th January 2016 | Action Alert last updated 21st January 2016 *** Arabic version below *** The undersigned organisations are calling on the international community to take immediate action regarding the continuous closure of the Tel Rumeida neighborhood and the part of Shuhada Street that has remained accessible to Palestinian residents since the Ibrahimi…
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Five Palestinian teens blackmailed into accepting 15 years prison term and exorbitant ‘fines’ for a crime that never happened
December 13th, 2015 | The Hares Boys campaign| Hares, Salfit UPDATE: 05.01.2016 Congratulations! The campaign for the Hares Boys has marked the halfway point by collecting 75944.56 NIS (~US $19314.24). However, we still have a long way before reaching the 150,000 NIS by the deadline of 28 January 2016 in order to avoid having each boy’s…
