For Immediate Release: 4:30pm, 15 May 2009: A 12-year old girl has been shot with 0.22 calibre live ammunition in Ni’lin Summer Amira, was shot by Israeli forces as she was standing on the roof of her home. Amira was ...
Read More »Israeli organizations call on Norway to divest from the Israeli Occupation
Twenty different Israeli organizations send an appeal to the Norwegian people to withdraw Norwegian national pension fund’s investments in all Israeli and international corporations which are involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. “We, Israeli organizations …, call upon ...
Read More »International Human Rights Workers to accompany Palestinian farmers near buffer zone in Gaza Strip
For Immediate Release: 8am, Thursday 7 May 2009: Six International Human Rights Workers will be accompanying 12 Palestinian farmers Laytamaat area near Khoza’a, east of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza strip, as they harvest crops several hundred ...
Read More »Release the Palestinian activists arrested in al-Ma’sara
4 May 2009 After arrests and injuries on Workers Day, Palestinian workers and activists call on trade unions around the globe to increase solidarity On May 1, people from the village of al-Ma’sara and the neighbouring villages in Bethlehem area ...
Read More »Palestinians demonstrate against Susiya settlement expansion
Christian Peacemaker Teams 5 May 2009 Over one hundred Israeli and Palestinian members of Combatants for Peace gathered peacefully in the Palestinian village of Susiya on 5 May to mark the installation in the village of solar panels and a ...
Read More »Seven arrested during non-violent demonstration in Umm Salamouna
For Immediate Release: 1 May 2009 Residents gathered at 1.30 pm for a weekly demonstration near the village of Al-Ma’sara in protest of the Apartheid Wall that was built on Palestinian land in the villages of Al-Ma’sara, Um Salamouna, Jourat ...
Read More »You cannot sink our boats
Free Gaza Movement 1 May 2009 In most of the world, May 1st is a day of international labor solidarity. It is a day of joy as workers picnic together with their families and celebrate the achievements of one of ...
Read More »Zero Palestinian Evictions, now!
The inhabitants’ associations, international networks, voluntary groups, NGOs, public agencies, citizens of the world, express their indignation at and denounce Israel’s continual policies of eviction and demolition carried out against the Palestinian people, both Palestinians ’48 (citizens of Israel) and ...
Read More »Israeli soldiers arrest journalist, close village of Um al Kheir
Christian Peacemaker Team 24 April 2009 [Note: According to the Geneva Conventions, the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and numerous United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Most settlement outposts are considered ...
Read More »Freedom Summer 2009: Defend the Land and Jerusalem
The International Solidarity Movement is issuing a call-out for internationals to volunteer as field activists and office workers in the West Bank, Gaza, and occupied East Jerusalem this summer. Whether you can come for only few weeks or several months, ...
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