Category: Press Releases
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CPT: At-Tuwani children’s march to Tuba a success – Palestinians walk on road unused for 11 years
To learn more about the Christian Peacemaker Teams’ work in Palestine click here 3rd August 2008 At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills: On August 2nd, more than one hundred children and their parents from the South Hebron Hills marched from the village of At-Tuwani to Tuba, calling for an end to settler violence and expansion in the…
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Yousef Amira, shot in the head by Israeli forces in Ni’lin, has died
A Palestinian teenager, aged 17, who was left brain-dead on the 30th July after being shot in the head by Israeli forces, died this morning. His funeral will be held in Ni’lin later this afternoon. Photos courtesy of Activestills Israeli forces shot Yousef Ahmad Younis Amera with two rubber coated steel bullets from close range,…
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Free Gaza: Can unarmed seaborne civilians break the siege of Gaza?
A press conference at The Journalists’ House, Nicosia At RIK / CBC Avenue 12, Nicosia Monday, 4th August, 2008 at 10.00 a.m. [Camera crews to come early, please, for set up] Inaugurating The Free Gaza Movement Sailing to Gaza DESTINATION: GAZA PORT In August, unarmed Palestinians, Israelis and internationals will sail directly to Gaza without…