Category: Reports

  • Candle vigil in solidarity with evicted Palestinian families held in Sheikh Jarrah

    10 August 2009 At 8pm, around 200 Palestinians, Israelis and international solidarity activists congregated outside the evicted homes of the Hanoun family. Under the presence of the Israeli police, the demonstrators lit candles which illuminated signs and posters condemning the evictions and demanding their homes back. Peacefully, people sang and spoke whilst traffic tooted their…

  • Settlers attack Susiyan Palestinian sheep herders

    10 August 2009 At 7:30 of this morning, a group of sheep shepherds from Susyia, a small Palestinian village in the Southern Hebron hills, came under attack by a pair of Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal colony. The shepherds, a small group of two Palestinian men and one woman had been grazing their sheep…

  • Ni’lin demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall

    7 August 2009 Palestinians, Israelis and international solidarity activists gathered in the fields of Ni’lin for the midday prayer before once again setting off to protest the illegal Apartheid Wall that continues to severe Ni’lin residents from their land. The demonstrators, numbering approximately 60, took a different route than usual across the fields but were…