Category: Press Releases
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Occupy Wall Street not Palestine!
13 October 2011 | Palestinian BDS National Committee Occupy Wall Street not Palestine! We are part of the world’s 99% yearning for freedom, justice and equal rights! If a people one day wills to live fate must answer its call And the night must fade …
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Military court rejects motion to release Bassem Tamimi
12 October 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee A judge at the Ofer Military Court ruled yesterday that Palestinian protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi, will remain in prison indefinitely, until the end of his trial. The judge denied a motion filed by Tamimi’s defense lawyer, adv. Labib Habib, to revisit a prior decision to hold Tamimi…
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Internationals in Gaza join hunger strike for Palestinian prisoner rights
11 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza For Immediate Release: Three foreign nationals residing in Gaza have entered their fifth day of an open-ended hunger strike and protest encampment in front of the ICRC. The internationals are available for interview. Vera Macht, Germany, stated: “The situation of Palestinian prisoners is truly heartbreaking. Parents are…
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Please act now! Pro-Israel groups censor Palestinian children’s art
13 September 2011 | Middle East Children’s Alliance On Thursday, September 8, 2011, the Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) in Oakland decided to cancel an exhibit of art by Palestinian children in Gaza, titled “A Child’s View From Gaza.” The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) had established a partnership with MOCHA and spent several months…
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Israeli settlers set fire to a house-tent in the Palestinian village of Susiya
10 September 2011 | Operation Dove and Christian Peacemaker Teams [Note: According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hague Regulations, the International Court of Justice, and several United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements and outposts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Most settlement outposts, including Havat Ma’on (Hill 833), are considered illegal also under…