Category: Press Releases

  • Mourning Juliano Mer-Khamis

    Jeff Halper | Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions The ICAHD family mourns the tragic slaying of Juliano Mer-Khamis The ICAHD family mourns the tragic slaying by masked gunmen of our friend and comrade Juliano Mer-Khamis in Jenin. Juliano was a major figure in the struggle for a just peace and the forging of a new…

  • Corrie trial resumes in Haifa court with testimony of bulldozer unit commander

    29 March 2010 | Rachel Corrie Foundation After a five month recess, the Haifa District Court will resume hearings Sunday, April 3, in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza on March 16, 2003. Rachel was an American student activist and human…

  • Nabi Saleh protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to remain under arrest

    31 March 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Tamimi’s arrest was extended by an Israeli military judge after the prosecution filed a grievous indictment. The hearing took place in front of a courtroom packed with Tamimi’s family, supporters, European diplomats and Israeli intellectuals. Bassem Tamimi, 44, a protest organizer from Nabi Saleh and the coordinator…

  • Israeli Soldiers Arrest Bassem Tamimi, Coordinator of Nabi Saleh Popular Committee

    24 March 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bassem Tamimi, coordinator of the Nabi Saleh popular committee, was arrested when dozens of soldiers raided his house at noon today beating his wife and daughter in the process. Only yesterday the military court had ordered the indefinite remand of Naji Tamimi, another member of the Nabi…

  • Two Palestinians injured as settler opens fire on funeral procession in Beit Ommar

    21 March 2011 | Center for Freedom and Justice in Beit Ommar Around 12pm on Monday, March 21st, 2011, two Palestinian residents from the village of Beit Ommar in the southern West Bank were shot with live ammunition by an Israeli settler. The settler stopped his car on Route 60 as a funeral procession was…