Category: Press Releases

  • Israel Denies Work Permits to Protest Villages

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Israeli Civil Administration has threatened to deny workers in West Bank villages permits to work in Israel if their demonstrations against the occupation continue. Workers in Bil’in, Beit Sira, Beit Likya, and Harbata have received threats, but the villages have continued their demonstrations regardless Last week a member of the Civil…

  • ACTION ALERT: Demand Israeli Army Release Children Captives

    URGENT ACTION NEEDED Nablus, Occupied West Bank Forty hours after capture, eleven children remain captives of the Israeli army. They have been confined and isolated for nearly two days now. Since 5am yesterday morning they have been held in an 8th floor room in an apartment the army has turned into a sniper nest. The…

  • Hebron Anticipates Escalating Violence over Passover

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fears that settler violence against Palestinian residents will increase over the Jewish holidays came to a head as Israeli settlers took over a Palestinian house on Thursday. The army has refused to remove them until the squatting has been challenged in the High Court and IDF soldiers have been stationed near the…