Category: Press Releases

  • Open Gaza’s Borders to Prevent a Humanitarian Crisis

    Urgent Appeal from Israeli Human Rights Groups to Israeli Defense Minister: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 June 2007 As we write these lines, hundreds of refugees are trapped between Erez crossing, which is sealed, and the Hamas military force preventing their return to Gaza. The sick and those injured from recent events are trapped in Gaza.…

  • Counter Israel’s policy of Bedouin demolition (ACTION ALERT)

    Call for a letter-writing campaign from the Recognition Forum Photo from Negev Coexistence Forum For about two years now, the Israeli government has been carrying out an unwritten policy of wiping from the face of the earth entire villages of Bedouins in the Negev. This policy is well demonstrated by the repeated demolition of ‘Tawil…

  • Protesters take Rubber Bullets to Head and Stomach

    by Eva, 15 June 2007 Video by Emad Bornat Three demonstrators were injured by rubber bullets in another of the weekly non-violent demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall and land grab in Bil’in village. A 29 year old American journalist was hit in the stomach, while two Palestinians from Bil’in took rubber bullets to the head…