30 January 2011 | Amnesty International Amnesty International has urged the Israeli authorities to end their harassment of Palestinian human rights activists after a well-known campaigner in Haifa was jailed for nine years and given an additional one-year suspended sentence ...
Read More »Settlers Kill Palestinian in Iraq Burin
27 January 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Oday Maher Hamza Qadous, 19 years old, has been killed by settlers while farming his land in Iraq Burin. Army forces have taken over the village of Iraq Burin. 19 year old ...
Read More »Judge accepts military prosecution’s appeal to harshen Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s sentence
11 January 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The court has accepted the military prosecution’s appeal to harshen Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s sentence to a total of 16 months. Abu Rahmah was supposed to be released on November 18th 2010, but ...
Read More »Tell Combined Systems Inc. to Stop Providing Tear Gas that Israel Uses to Kill and Maim Protesters
CLICK HERE TO SEND AN E-MAIL TO COMBINED SYSTEMS INC. On January 1, 2011, 36-year-old Palestinian Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the West Bank village of Bil’in died at a hospital from the effects of tear gas inhalation suffered at a ...
Read More »Substantial evidence contradicts the army’s version of the events surrounding the death of Jawaher Abu Rahmah
4 January 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The evidence surrounding the events leading to the death of Bil’in resident Jawaher Abu Rahmah disproves completely the army spokesperson’s version, to the point of putting the army in a ridiculous light. ...
Read More »Combined Systems Inc.: stop providing equipment that Israel misuses to kill and maim unarmed protesters
3 January 2010: Open letter to Combined Systems Inc written by Palestine solidarity groups From: Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (adalahny.org) CodePink: Women for Peace (www.codepink4peace.org) Jewish Voice for Peace (www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org) The US Campaign to ...
Read More »Israeli forces kill woman in Bil’in
1 January 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Doctors at the Ramallah hospital fought for Jawaher Abu Rahmah’s life all night at the Ramallah Hospital, but were unable to save her life. Abu Rahmah suffered from severe asphyxiation caused by ...
Read More »Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak sentenced to 3 months in prison
27 December 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Pollak was sentenced to three months imprisonment this morning at the Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court for his participation in a 2008 bicycle in protest of the siege on Gaza. He will begin ...
Read More »Israeli military kills shepherd in Beit Lahya
24 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Yesterday morning Salama Abu Hashish, 20 years, was herding his sheep and goats in Beit Lahya, in northern Gaza, when the Israeli Occupation Forces shot him without any warning. The bullet hit ...
Read More »Action Alert: help silwan resident Adnan Gheith stay in Jerusalem
23 December 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee On November 28th, Adnan, a Silwan grassroots organizer, received written notification that Israel intends to issue an order expelling him for a four months period from his city – Jerusalem. Adnan is ...
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