Press Releases

26 August 2011 | International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border Fed up with the closure of Gaza that has kept more than a million and a half Palestinians locked in to the strip’s tight borders, a beacon call is ...

13 August 2011 | Viva Palestina Viva Palestina is returning to Gaza with our sixth major international aid mission to bring an end to the illegal siege. Much has changed for the Palestinian people and the wider region in the 11 months ...

Today, a call demanding the re-opening of the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Palestine has come from Gaza. It is propelled by support from Egypt and has been endorsed by dozens of organizations, citizens’ groups, associations and coalitions in many ...

22 July 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Five Palestinians were arrested in Nabi Saleh today, as soldiers stormed village houses without warrants. Israeli soldiers and Border Police officers implemented extremely violent measures in the dispersal of the weekly demonstration ...

20 July 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza The Israeli navy attacked Civil Peace Service Gaza volunteers along with international press and Palestinian fishermen today. One of the Israeli ships targeted the boats with high pressure water cannons. Meanwhile, a ...

13 July 2011 | Welcome to Palestine Bethlehem and Jerusalem, July 13, 2011. Court dates have been set for noon today and tomorrow at 9 am for the court challenges of “Welcome to Palestine” participants against the deportation orders of ...

13 July 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza For Immediate Release Israeli naval forces attacked the Civil Peace Service Gaza monitoring boat with water cannons earlier today. Civil Peace Service Gaza is an international third party non-violent initiative to monitor potential ...

12 July 2011 | US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel Read the Palestinian Boycott National Committees statement on the anti-boycott bill Read the Boycott From Within statement on the anti-boycott bill On Monday, 11 July 2011, ...

10 July 2011 | Welcome to Palestine Israeli authorities set stringent conditions for release of “Welcome to Palestine” prisoners The large majority of international visitors are still incarcerated under brutal conditions, begin a hunger strike in Israeli jail Bethlehem, July ...

8 July 2011 | Alternative Information Center Others are in flight and hundreds more prevented from boarding The first international activists participating in the Welcome to Palestine campaign arrived yesterday to Ben Gurion airport from Europe. This morning hundreds more ...