Category: Press Releases

  • Lawyers Challenge EU and UK over Inaction on Palestine

    Lawyers acting for campaigns group War on Want will today send letters to President José Manuel Barroso of the European Commission and UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw challenging them to provide evidence of any action they have taken to curtail human rights abuses against Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation. One year after the International…

  • UN Conference of Civil Society calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions!

    Worldwide Activism, The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign In their recent session in Paris, July 13, 2005 the UN International Conference of Civil Society for Peace in the Middle East unanimously adopted the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions. Through the call participating groups recommitted themselves to ending the Occupation of Palestine and to…

  • Immatin, West Bank under curfew as punishment for non-violent resistance

    Military jeeps invaded Immatin early this morning and announced curfew until 6 PM. One of the soldiers told an international volunteer that the area would be opened when work on the wall for today was completed. However, some of the villagers defied the curfew to perform Friday prayer at the village mosque. Soldiers surrounded the…

  • Salfit District Week of Non-violent Resistance

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Where: Salfit District, West Bank When: Saturday, July 16 – Thursday, July 21, 2005 Residents of the Salfit District join with international and Israeli peace activists to hold a week of non-violent resistance actions from Saturday, July 16 through Thursday, July 21. These actions are organized by the Popular Committee Against the…

  • 46 killed, 462 injured, 1249 arrested in three months

    Saed Bannoura, IMEMC & Agencies The Palestinian Ministry of Interior issued a new report on the continuous military violations carried out by the Israeli army in the occupied territories between March 1 and June 30, 2005. In dozens of military invasions and operations carried out by the army in the Palestinian territories, 46 Palestinian residents…