Category: Press Releases

  • Military judge orders to keep Bil’in organizer jailed

    22 November 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Abdallah Abu Rahmah Abdallah Abu Rahmah was scheduled to be released from prison last Thursday, after having served the one-year prison term he was sentenced to. He remains in jail after the Military Court of Appeals ordered today to keep him behind bars regardless, pending a decision…

  • Israeli soldiers detain five Palestinian Schoolboys in South Hebron Hills

    21 November 2010 | Christian Peacemaker Team At-Tuwani – Claiming that the children were throwing stones, Israeli soldiers detained five Palestinian schoolboys. Since the beginning of 2005, the children from the village of Tuba wait every morning for an Israeli army escort to accompany them to the school in At-Tuwani, along the shortest road that…

  • Action Alert: Tell your MP that war criminals should be prosecuted not welcomed!

    4 November 2010 | Palestine Solidarity Campaign Yesterday, the Foreign Secretary William Hague reiterated the government’s commitment to urgently resolve the “unacceptable situation” with regard to universal jurisdiction during his visit to Israel. The coalition government want to change the current legislation to give the Director of Public Prosecutions power over issuing arrest warrants against…

  • Israeli Military’s negligence exposes schoolchildren to Israeli settler threats

    25 October, 2010 | Christian Peacemaker Team On the afternoon of Monday October 25th, Palestinian schoolchildren from the villages of Tuba and Maghayir al Abeed were threatened by four adult Israeli settlers from the Havat Ma’on outpost while walking home from school. The children, aged 6-13, were walking without their normal Israeli military escort because…

  • ALERT: Call for Gaza volunteers falsely attributed to the International Solidarity Movement

    25 October 2010 | International Solidarity Movement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Recently an article titled “We are looking for the next Rachel Corrie” appeared on several IndyMedia websites purporting to be an official ISM call for volunteers in Gaza. This article was not written or released by the International Solidarity Movement. Some versions of the article…