Press Releases

Press release 30 October 2007 Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the prolonged detention of journalist Ata Farahat, who was arrested on 30 July and is being held in Al-Jalama prison (14 km southeast of Haifa). The organisation has been ...

For Immediate Release October 30, 2007 Last week, settlers from Kfah Tappuah settlement near the West Bank village of Jamaeen trespassed on the Palestinian villagers’ land 2km from Jamaeen village, burning approximately 30 dunums of vital agricultural land hosting olive ...

ANOTHER VOICE October 28, 2007 For Immediate Release *** C O N C E R T *** RAISE YOUR VOICE PALESTINE! [RAMALLAH] Palestinian grassroots activists and organizations will hold a free outdoor concert on Wednesday, October 31, calling for a ...

** Update ** On October 31st, the Israeli army invaded Al-Mazra’a Al-Qibliya and arrested eight more people. It seems they are to be charged with exactly the same crimes the three British women formerly imprisoned were charged with. Those allegations ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Brighton-Tubas Fellowship: For more info contact Tom Hayes on 00447846506710 or Ann on 0522354477 ***Update, after being sent to the Ministry of the Interior to begin the process of deportation, the three women were released. Three British ...

Left on the Ground for Nearly an Hour, a Patient in a Serious Condition Dies Due to Restrictions at Erez Crossing PCHR strongly condemns the unjustified complicated procedures adopted by Israeli occupation authorities at Erez crossing, which have led to ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 26 October, 2007 Palestinian villagers from al Mazra al Qiblya will again protest the illegal confiscation and cultivation of their agricultural land by Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Talmon, who over 2 months ago leveled ...

A United Front for Peace December 2007- May 2008 We, the National Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza (hereafter the National Committee), have adopted the initiative of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme to launch an international campaign for ...

PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Release Date: 25 October 2007 Israeli Occupation Authorities Seek to Impose More Measures of Collective Punishment on the Palestinian People, and PCHR Warns of Further Deterioration to Humanitarian Conditions in the Gaza Strip ...

Adnan Muhammad Hasan Khalil, American citizen of Palestinian descent, emigrated from the West Bank as a youth in 1976 and returned ten years ago to get married. At that time, he applied to the Israeli authorities for Family Unification (FU) ...