Category: Press Releases
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Anti-Apartheid Demonstration this Sunday near Beit Ur
On Sunday, at 10 am, November 4th a demonstration against the apartheid road system will take place on the Israeli-only 443 highway. The demonstration will take place at the bridge near Beit Ur that runs above the Palestinian only tunnel that runs beneath the highway. For seven years now, Highway 443 has been accessible to…
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Reporters Without Borders: Golan Heights journalist Ata Farahat held without trial for past three months
Press release 30 October 2007 Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the prolonged detention of journalist Ata Farahat, who was arrested on 30 July and is being held in Al-Jalama prison (14 km southeast of Haifa). The organisation has been told he could be prosecuted for “collaborating with an enemy nation” but this has never…
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Action Alert! Jamaeen Non-Violent Demonstration to Protest Settler Arson
For Immediate Release October 30, 2007 Last week, settlers from Kfah Tappuah settlement near the West Bank village of Jamaeen trespassed on the Palestinian villagers’ land 2km from Jamaeen village, burning approximately 30 dunums of vital agricultural land hosting olive trees. The village of Jamaeen lies just south of Nablus and, like the many other…