Category: Press Releases
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Bil’in marches against US veto in the United Nations
25 February 2011 | Popular Committee Against the Wall Dozens were injured in the weekly demonstration against the Occupation and settlements. The demonstration was held against the United State’s veto of a UN resolution which condemned Israel’s illegal settlements. The demonstration was attacked with tear gas by Israeli soldiers who wanted to crush the nonviolent…
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April 20-23: The 6th Annual Bil’in Conference on the Palestinian Popular Struggle
As nonviolent resistance for freedom sweeps across the Arab world, join us in harnessing the winds of change at the 6th annual Bil’in Conference. What: 6th Annual Bil’in Conference on the Palestinian Popular Struggle When: 20-23 April 2011 Where: The Village of Bil’in, Occupied West Bank From Gaza to Bil’in, popular resistance to the occupation…
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Adalah-NY: New Yorkers protest Israel Philharmonic for whitewashing apartheid, protests planned in other US cities
22 February 2011 | Adalah-NY February 22 – Seventy New Yorkers protested the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s (IPO) performance at Carnegie Hall Tuesday evening, using chants, songs and street theater to highlight the IPO’s role in whitewashing Israel’s apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. The orchestra’s performances are being met with protests in six of the…
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Action Alert: tell Egypt to open Rafah crossing
19 February 2011 | Gazan human rights organizations The International Solidarity Movement has received a request from Palestinians in Gaza that concerned people contact the Egyptian embassies to ask them to reopen the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza. They have prepared a statement which you can sign and fax to your embassy in order…
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Drug store set on fire and classes suspended in school heavily damaged by Israeli bombing
09 February 2011 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the targeting of civilian establishments in the Gaza Strip by aircraft of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) early this morning. Ten Palestinians, including two women and a child, were wounded as a result of the bombing. In…