Category: Press Releases

  • Dismantling Impunity: Campaign to help Palestinian victims of army abuse

    9 February 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee is proud to announce a new campaign, the “Dismantling Impunity Fund”. This fund will directly challenge Israel’s culture of impunity surrounding the murder and maiming of Palestinians. The fund will be managed by a committee that will include representatives of Popular Committees…

  • Israeli settlers chase Palestinian children after Israeli military fails to provide escort

    08 February 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Team At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills, West Bank – On the afternoon of 7 February 2011, three Israeli settlers from Havat Ma’on outpost chased a group of 12 Palestinian schoolchildren who were walking home from school. The Israeli military had failed to arrive to escort the schoolchildren,…

  • Action Alert: End US tear gas & military aid to Egypt, Tunisia & Israel

    6 February 2011 | Adalah NY Egyptians, Americans and people worldwide have been outraged in the last days by the photos, twitter messages and news articles showing that the tear gas canisters fired by Egyptian police at peaceful, pro-democracy protesters in Egypt are “Made in USA.” While we are seeing these pictures now from Egypt,…

  • Harsh Interrogations of Children Escalate in Nabi Saleh

    31 January 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 14 year old Islam Tamimi was arrested in a night raid on Sunday 23 January 2011 and subjected to psychological torture in order to extract dictated false testimony that will be used to incriminate and prosecute villagers in Nabi Saleh. In an escalation of the repression of…

  • Palestinian human rights activist jailed in Israel

    30 January 2011 | Amnesty International Amnesty International has urged the Israeli authorities to end their harassment of Palestinian human rights activists after a well-known campaigner in Haifa was jailed for nine years and given an additional one-year suspended sentence earlier today. Ameer Makhoul, a longstanding Palestinian activist, was convicted on various counts of having…