Press Releases

17 October 2009 For immediate release: Iraq Burin has achieved the first success of its kind, in which the District Co-ordination Office has entered in to an agreement with the village to return 30 dunums of contested farmland to its ...

For Immediate Release: 30 September 2009: Palestinian youth run over by Israeli military jeep outside school in Jenin-area village. At around 11am, Foad Mahmoud Naiyf Turkman, 17 years of age, was run over by a military jeep as he was ...

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) 28 September 2009 In conjunction with the presentation of the UN Fact Finding Mission’s report to the Human Rights Council on 29 September, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) release “Through Women’s Eyes: ...

Stop the Wall 24 September 2009 On September 22, Mohammad Othman was arrested by soldiers on the Allenby Bridge Crossing, the border from Jordan to Palestine. He is now being held in Huwara prison as a prisoner of conscience, arrested ...

UPDATE: Haitham was released with a condition to not be near the Apartheid Wall. The Israeli solidarity activists were given a condition to not be in the village of Bil’in. For Immediate Release 25 September 2009: Israeli forces target Palestinian ...

24 September 2009 The village of Iraq Burin in the the southern region of Nablus will re-commence its weekly demonstrations this Friday, the 25th of September after a hiatus to observe the holy month of Ramadan. Over 100 dunums (100,000 ...

Code Pink 23 September 2009 The Israeli assault on Gaza at the end of December 2008 and into January 2009 was a tipping point for many with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For CODEPINK it no longer felt possible to ...

Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP) 19 September 2009 Since the last month WOFPP has accompanied, with deep concern, the minor political prisoner who complained of sexual harassment by one of the guards in Hasharon Prison where she was held. ...

For Immediate Release: 16 September 2009: Israeli forces raid Bil’in, beat Popular Committee member. Around 1:30am, the Israeli army invaded Bil’in. Soldiers came to the home of Abdullah Mahmoud Abu Rahme , coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the ...

Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove 10 September 2009 At a time when the international community is calling for a freeze on new building in settlements and the disbanding of settlement outposts, the settler community of the South Hebron Hills ...