November 2007 Out of our serious concern for our national cause and legitimate rights, which have been under direct and systematic attack from the Israeli Occupation and the United States, who wish to liquidate the Palestinian struggle by taking advantage ...
Read More »Al-Haq: A Foundation not an Afterthought: Upholding International Law at Annapolis
AL-HAQ: JOINT OPEN LETTER 26 November 2007 Joint Letter to Negotiating Parties by Palestinian Civil Society Organisations* As Palestinian human rights and civil society organisations, we the undersigned, are deeply concerned by the lack of a clearly articulated legal framework ...
Read More »Three Nonviolent Protests in the West Bank Tomorrow: in Bil’in, at Apartheid Road 443 and Near Umm Salamuna
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1. Weekly Protest in Bil’in Continues The Village of Bil’in is continuing its weekly protest against the Apartheid Wall and the confiscation of land by the Mattiyahu East settlement. The Supreme Court recently ruled that the wall ...
Read More »Large Non-Violent Demonstration Tomorrow At Huwwara Checkpoint
For Immediate Release There will be a large non-violent demonstration tomorrow at 3.30pm against Huwwara checkpoint, just south of the West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinians, joined by internationals, will deliver a message to the Israeli army: We have had ...
Read More »Members of French Parliament Attending Tomorrows Demonstration in Bil’in
For Immediate Release Tomorrow 36 members of the French Parliament and regional mayors will join the people of Bil’in for their weekly protest against the apartheid wall and settlements. Palestinian, Israeli and international protestors will meet at 12pm by the ...
Read More »Don’t Sign for Apartheid in Palestine
The French group “Two Peoples, Two States” calls the public for signing a petition (based on a “Two States Solution”, on the outlines of the Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abbed Rabbo’s “Geneva Initiative”, and the Ami Ayalon and Sari Nusseibeh’s ...
Read More »Jalud Olive Harvest Stopped by Armed Settlers and the Israeli Army
The Ibrahim family of the West Bank village of Jalud, accompanied by international and Israeli Human Rights Workers (HRWs), were forcibly prevented from harvesting their land yesterday by both armed settlers and the Israeli Army. Jalud, a community of about ...
Read More »Al-Haq: Open Letter to Quartet Members: Israel’s Recent Land Confiscations East of Occupied Jerusalem
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 November 2007 Dear Quartet Member, As a Palestinian non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of international human rights and humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Al-Haq is gravely concerned at the planned ...
Read More »Settlers burn olive trees in Jamma’in
The West Bank village of Jamma’in has 10 000 residents, most of them farmers, and is close to the biggest illegal settlement in the west bank, Ariel, and another smaller one, Tapua. Often the villagers are harassed by settlers, most ...
Read More »Anti-Apartheid Demonstration this Sunday near Beit Ur
On Sunday, at 10 am, November 4th a demonstration against the apartheid road system will take place on the Israeli-only 443 highway. The demonstration will take place at the bridge near Beit Ur that runs above the Palestinian only tunnel ...
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