Press Releases

16 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement On the anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s martyrdom today, the rain fell in quiet tears that watered Palestine in a confusing emotion of remorse and yet optimism—the same optimism we hear in the voice ...

9 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Two international activists were assaulted late this morning by extreme Zionist settlers in Al Khalil (Hebron). A female activist was assaulted by a male settler, after being punched in the face ...

6 March 2012 | Global March to Jerusalem We, the Advisory Board of the Global March to Jerusalem, are alarmed and deeply troubled by the continuing repression of Palestinians in Jerusalem and by the deliberate and systematic attempts to expel ...

20 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Beginning this week local organizers in Al Khalil (Hebron) and supporters have organized a series of events to commemorate the Baruch Goldstein Massacre and demand the re-opening of Shuhada Street, once the ...

21 February 2012 | Samidoun Organizational endorsements are welcome for this statement. Please click here or email april17@palestinianprisoners.org to endorse. “I hereby assert that I am confronting the occupiers not for my own sake as an individual, but for the sake of thousands of ...

13 February 2012 | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network “My husband is dying inside an Israeli jail. The world should make sure I am able to see him,” she said. “And it should pressure the Israeli government to release him ...

10 February 2012 | Palestinian BDS National Committee Commemorating Land Day, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) invites people of conscience around the world to unite for a BDS Global Day of Action on 30 March 2012 in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle for ...

12 February 2012 | Samidoun- Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Khader Adnan, Palestinian political prisoner being held under administrative detention, is now entering his 57th day of hunger strike and facing a severe health crisis.  Despite the fact that Khader Adnan ...

12 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A newly released report submitted to the United Nations by international organizations working in Al Khalil documents a sharp increase in serious human rights violations against Palestinian civilians, particularly youth and ...

9 February 2012 | Tanweer Enlightenment Forum The Israel military court has extended administrative detention for two months in addition to three months already detained for civil rights lawyer Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq, a lecturer at An-Najah National University and ...