Category: Press Releases

  • Palestinian protester dies of injury sustained on February 22

    8th March 2013| Popular Struggle Coordination Committee  Muhammad Asfour, 23, was injured two weeks ago from rubber coated steel bullet in his head during a protest. His Funeral will take place after Friday noon prayer in Aboud. Since the beginning of 2013, six Palestinians were killed from soldiers’ shooting.   The medical staff of Echilov…

  • Palestinian still detained after he was shot in the head at peaceful demonstration

    5th March 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine 22 year old Ibrahim Saadi is still being held at Ofer Prison in Ramallah after being shot in the head close range by a rubber bullet and arrested during a peaceful demonstration in Hebron on Friday. His brother told us he had recieved a number…

  • “Our prisoners are dying.” Students mobilise in Gaza

    3rd March 2013 | International Action for Palestine, Gaza, Occupied Palestine “Our prisoners are dying.” said Gaza student Khaled Shehab from the Islamic University. “We won’t wait till the death of another prisoner to move in solidarity with all the detainees.” Khaled was joining the thousands attending the growing number of demonstrations in the Gaza…

  • International activist faces deportation after Kufr Qaddoum demonstration

    One international activist and two Palestinians were arrested at this Friday´s demonstration in Kufr Qaddoum. Around 150 Palestinians, together with Israeli and international activists, participated in Kufr Qaddoum’s weekly demonstration against the closure of the road leading to Nablus. After midday prayers, protesters marched from the center of the village up the main road, but…

  • Two residents from Burin arrested overnight: confrontations ongoing throughout today

    UPDATE:  Baha Adnan Imran 14 years old, who was arrested yesterday on his way home from school, is now being accused of throwing stones and carrying a knuckle duster. He will appear before Salem Military courts tommorow on the northern edge of Jenin. 25 February 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Burin, Occupied Palestine Mahmoud Nasser…