Category: Reports

  • Eleven year old Palestinian boy run over by Israeli settler

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 July 2010 Eleven year old Palestinian boy run over by Israeli settler in Hebron Tel Rumeida, HEBRON: An eleven year old Palestinian boy was run over by an Israeli settler in Hebron last night, and had to be immediately hospitalized. An eyewitness said that a motorcyclist hit the boy, Abdallah Hasan…

  • Seventeen year old from Bil’in arrested in night raid

    Last night the Israeli army carried out a night raid in the West Bank village of Bil’in and arrested a seventeen year old boy. At least 12 Israeli army jeeps entered the village at approximately 1.30 in the morning. Soldiers from two of the jeeps then closed off the house of Ahmed Abdul Fatah Burnat,…

  • The resistance continues in protests across Palestine

    Al Ma’sara  (Friday 16 July) On the anniversary of the French Revolution, the theme of the protest in Al Ma’sara on Friday was the destruction of the prison in which Israel holds Palestinians captive, redolent of the French storming of the Bastille in 1789. Around 50 demonstrators, both Palestinians and internationals, marched towards the main…

  • Popular struggle organizer Wa’el Al-Faqeeh sentenced to one year

    18 July 2010 International Solidarity Movement Palestinian human rights activist Wa’el Al-Faqeeh has been sentenced to one year in Israeli military prison, on the charge of aiding an illegal organization. Al-Faqeeh was arrested by the Israeli military on 9 December 2009, thus due to be released in December of this year. The sentence was handed…

  • CPT: Israeli Border Police Demolish Cistern in Al Beqa’a Valley

    Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron Israeli border police demolished a rainwater cistern and removed irrigation pipes from several Palestinian fields in Al Beqa’a Valley just east of Hebron on July 14, 2010, the second day of incidents in the area this month. When international peace activists from Christian Peacemaker Teams arrived in the area at…