Category: Press Releases

  • Kiryat Arba: Confrontation with Diplomats and Activists

    by Ali Waked and Efrat Weiss This is a translation from Hebrew of an article appearing in YNet A group of settlers verbally attacked diplomats of the EU and Israeli activists of the organization “Breaking the Silence” this morning (Wednesday) in Kiryat Arba, during one of the tours the organization holds weekly in the Westbank…

  • Palestinian Centre for Human Rights weekly report

    by PCHR staff Israeli occupation forces conducted 30 military incursions into Palestinian areas in the West Bank. During these incursions, IOF raided houses and arrested 29 Palestinian civilians. Soldiers also imposed curfews on a number of communities. IOF used a child as a human shield to search his family home. Read the full report here.

  • Israel’s “terrorisim” apartheid policy

    The BBC reported today that that the Israeli Defense Ministry has ruled that families of Palestinian inside Israel who were killed by an Israeli man cannot be compensentated as terrorism victims “because their killer was Jewish.” The ministry said in it’s ruling that the man, based on his ethnicity, could not be considered an “enemy…

  • 18 people abuducted by soldiers in Tarna

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ISM MEDIA GROUP — Soldiers invaded the small village of Tarna where home construction is under way and arrested 18 Palestinians — 16 residents of Tarna and two others working with nonprofit organizations — and are now taking them to detention. The 18 people were with three foreign members of the World…

  • ICAHD and other Israeli Peace Groups call for the cancellation of a planned Muslim Quarter new settlement

    Another illegal act in East Jerusalem undertaken by the Israeli Government and the Municipality of Jerusalem has recently been uncovered: a plan to build a new Jewish settlement in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City near Herod’s Gate. Recently the Sub-committee of the Local Committee for Planning and Construction in Jerusalem has confirmed a…