Category: Press Releases
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Israeli forces fire on Gaza farmers and internationals in Khuza’a [Update: Video Added]
12th December 2012 | Khuza’a, Besieged Gaza. Gaza- Israeli forces fired live ammunition and tear gas at unarmed farmers and international activists working in Khuza’a, a small village outside of Khan Younis located near the Israeli border. At 10:30 AM, the farmers arrived and began to plough approximately 100 meters from the separation fence while internationals…
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More evictions for army training in the Jordan Valley
10th December 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Jordan Valley, Occupied Palestine. 5am in Homsa in the northern Jordan Valley. Abdullah Ghanni, his family and his livestock are on the move under the watchful eyes of the Israeli Army. Two days earlier Ghanni had received a visit from soldiers informing him that military training would take…
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PCHR launches campaign ‘Palestine to the ICC’
10 December 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights On 10 December 2012, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, PCHR is launching its ‘Palestine to the ICC‘ campaign. The campaign aims to encourage the relevant stakeholders, namely the State of Palestine, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the international community, to fulfil…
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Bulldozers arrive in Hajja
9th December 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Occupied Palestine. On Sunday 9th December at 4pm the bulldozers rolled into the small sleepy town of Hajja near Kufr Qaddoum, in the northern part of the West Bank. They rolled past the Illegal Israeli Settlements, where many Palestinians from the surrounding villages work, with less workers’ rights…
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Palestinian hunger strikers insist on gaining their freedom even if the cost is their lives
5 December 2012 | Addameer Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association expresses its deep concern for the health and lives of five Palestinian political prisoners that are on hunger strike to protest their unjust detention in Israeli Occupation’s prisons. The five current hunger strikers are: Ayman Sharawna (158 days), Samer Al-Issawi (127 days), Oday…
