• ISM Rafah: Italian activist injured by Israeli navy off Gaza coast

    Two Gazan fishing boats with international human rights workers on board were repeatedly attacked by 2 Israeli gunboats while they were trying to exercise Palestinian people’s right to fish in the Palestinian waters. One of the Israeli gunboats was using a water cannon to throw water with high pressure while the other one was randomly…

  • Maan: PACBI – Paul McCartney “condones or ignores apartheid” with Israel concert

    To view original article, published by Maan News Agency on the 16th September, click here Bethlehem – Ma’an – Former Beatle Paul McCartney’s insistence on going ahead with a planned concert in Israel was denounced on Tuesday by Palestinian activists who say the gig will whitewash Israel’s human rights record. The Palestinian Campaign for the…

  • Settlers attack and burn olive tree’s in Awarta village

    On Sunday 14 September settlers from the Itamar settlement near the Palestinian village of Awarta, Nablus, burned and destroyed 70 dunums of land (between 6-10% of their harvest) with approximately 400 olive tree’s, vital to the livelihood of the village. In the morning settlers set fire to tree’s belonging to Awarta village destroying trees. They…

  • East Jerusalem shows solidarity with the Al-Kurd family

    On Monday September 15th 2008, the Muftah of Palestine and children from Shu’afaat orphanage visited the Al Kurd family to show their solidarity with the resistance Al Kurd and the 27 other families in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood are putting up against Israel’s ethnic cleansing of occupied East Jerusalem. 50 children and grown ups broke fast…

  • Settlers occupying Al-Kurd family home given eviction order

    The Al Kurd Family, residents of the East Jerusalem neighbourhood Sheikh Jarrah, have today won another trial in their struggle against settlers occupying their house. The Jerusalem District Court ordered the settlers to vacate the half of the Al Kurd family home they have occupied. This was the second judicial order issued to the settlers,…