Category: Press Releases

  • TOMORROW: Student’s Demonstration Against Checkpoint North of Ramallah

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tomorrow morning at 11 am Palestinian students will hold a demonstration against the Atara checkpoint (just north of Bier Zeit village, Ramallah). They will be joined by Israeli students and international activists from various Palestinian solidarity groups. The demonstration will be taking place on the same day that a coalition of Israeli…

  • Cementing Apartheid in the South Hebron Hills

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The villagers of Qawawis woke up Wednesday morning to workers building a meter-high cement wall along the road that runs through their land between the illegal Israeli settlement of Susya and Hebron. The mini-wall designed to keep Palestinian cars from accessing the settler-only road will have the effect of preventing the villagers…

  • Two Houses Demolished in Brukin, Salfit

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30 May 2006: Two houses were demolished by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the village of Brukin, Salfit, West Bank, on Tuesday morning, 30 May, 2006. They were among 70 houses that have received demolition orders, according to Brukin’s Mayor Ekremah Samara. The village, which has lost 8000 dunums of land…

  • Large Scale Unity Demonstration in Bil’in on Friday

    Credit: Tess Scheflan FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Friday, the villagers of Bil’in, joined by international and Israeli supporters will hold a demonstration in which they will call for enhanced unity and internal dialogue amongst the Palestinian parties. They will use the occasion of the commemoration of the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967 act…

  • Villagers of Jabaa to Reclaim Their Land: Thursday and Friday

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The village of Jabaa will hold two non-violent direct actions against the theft of their land by Israeli settlers and soldiers this weekend. A month ago, close to a thousand of the village’s olive trees were uprooted to prepare for the construction of the Wall, which will confiscate 600 Dunams, or roughly…