Category: Press Releases

  • Beit Ummar Plans a De-fence Action on their Lands

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Last night settlers from the Efrat settlement put a fence around 20 dunums of land belonging to Samir Al-Allamah of Beit Ummar. They have also put up tents inside the fence. People of Beit Ummar with international and Israeli activists plan to remove the fence from Al-Allamah’s property tomorrow at 8:30am. For…

  • Arson, Raids, Beatings

    1. Arson at the Outpost in Bil’in 2. Occupation Forces Continue Raids on Budrus Village 3. Settler Attacks on International volunteers in Tel Rumeida, Hebron 4. IMEMC: “Five Palestinians, including three teens, killed by Israeli artillery shells in the Gaza Strip” 5. Non-Violent Demonstration in Bil’in Deliberately Targeted by Israeli Soldiers 6. Palestinian Buildings Destroyed…

  • Arson at the Outpost in Bil’in

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 5pm today, May 28, 2006, Palestinian workers from the nearby settlement of Modi’in Illit called Abdullah Abu Rahme, from Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements of Bil’in, to tell him there was huge fire at the outpost. Abdullah went quickly to the outpost and found the army, the police, ambulance,…

  • More Settler Attacks on International Volunteers in Tel Rumeida, Hebron

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Youth from the Tel Rumeida settlement spat on, beat, assaulted, and stoned human rights workers from Canada, Denmark and Sweden yesterday (May 27, 2006). In three separate attacks on internationals and Palestinians the kids were encouraged by adults of the religious extremist Jewish community. Israeli soldiers and police refused to do anything…

  • Haaretz: “Israeli group urges sanctions on B.A. program for Shin Bet”

    By Tamara Traubmann, Haaretz Correspondent An Israeli group is planning to brief the British teachers’ association on a new Hebrew University program, approved last week, to grant undergraduate degrees to Shin Bet security services personnel. The Israeli initiative favors imposing sanctions on Israeli organizations that cooperate with the occupation in the territories. The British National…