Category: Press Releases
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Adalah NY: Eight Groups Call on Marriott Marquis to Cancel Hebron Settlement Fundraiser
New York, NY, November 13, 2008 – Eight groups representing tens of thousands of people in the US, Palestine and Israel have called on the Marriott Marquis hotel in Manhattan to cancel the November 17th dinner for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund aiming to raise money for Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of…
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Al-Kurd family evicted from their home in East Jerusalem – Eight international solidarity activists arrested from protest camp
Israeli police have evicted the Al-Kurd family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, and arrested 8 international solidarity activists that were staying on the property. The evicted Al-Kurd family have been staging a 3 1/2 month popular campaign against their eviction, establishing a protest camp and regular community actions (www.sheikhjarrah.com) At around 4:30am,…
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FGM: Dignity arrives in Gaza
To view the Free Gaza Website click here Larnaca: The DIGNITY pulled into Gaza at 9:15 a.m. Gaza time after an uneventful trip from Cyprus. The 23 passengers and crew on board were tired but ecstatic that they’d arrived. The 11 members of various European parliaments, originally denied entrance through the Rafah border, had made…