Category: Press Releases

  • Human Rights Workers’ Press Conference: Escalating Settler Violence in Hebron

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jerusalem: A broad coalition of activists and advocacy groups held a press conference today to call on the Israeli authorities to uphold the law and arrest settlers perpetrating violence against Palestinians and international volunteers that attempt to protect them before one of them is seriously injured or killed. Recent attacks against Palestinian…

  • Open Letter to the Israeli Military and Police

    To: Shaul Mofaz, Outgoing Minister of Defense Amir Peretz, Designate Minister of Defense Dan Halutz, Israeli Forces Chief of the General Staff Meni Mazuz, Attorney General Yair Lotstein, Military, Legal Advisor on the Territories Avihai Mandelblit, Military Advocate General Ofer Mey-Tal, Israeli Military Liaison for International Organizations Ben Artzi, Head of the Foreign Liaison Office…

  • Teen Shot in the Head in Nablus

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nablus, West Bank According to Dr. Samir Abu Zarour, at the emergency room in Rafidia Hospital, a 17 year-old boy “has multiple skull fractures on the right side of his head. A rubber-coated metal bullet made a tract through brain tissue and is now lodged in the left side. There is a…