Category: Press Releases

  • Letter of Palestinian Refugee Organizations to President Mahmoud Abbas

    The following letter was presented to President Mahmoud Abbas’s office on behalf of 78 Palestinian organizations on Wednesday September 22, 2008 Dear Mr. President, Greetings of Return We, the undersigned Palestinian refugee organizations, civil society movements and institutions in the Palestinian homeland and in exile are national organizations working to defend the right of return.…

  • ISM Rafah: Israeli navy continues to harass Gazan fishermen

    Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine, 18th September 2008 – On Thursday 18th September, at least 7 Palestinian fishing boats left Gaza City port to trawl in Gazan Territorial waters. The Israeli Navy continued it’s daily attacks and harassments on Palestinian fishermen and their boats. Today the Navy boat with the water cannon was not seen,…

  • Israeli forces abduct minors from Ni’lin

    Ni’lin – Thursday September 10th 2008 At 2am Thursday September 10th Israeli forces invaded the West bank village of Ni’lin and arrested 9 persons, three of them are under 18 and are still being kept in jail. Israeli forces invaded the village in the early hours of the morning, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets,…