• The National: West Bank construction challenged

    By Brendan Howley To view original article, published by The National on 21st July, click here In an inventive legal action, two lawyers for the West Bank Palestinian village of Bi’ilin have filed a civil statement of claim against a pair of Jewish-owned Canadian construction companies building condominiums in the village for Israeli settlers. Damages…

  • PSC: Ask Gordon Brown why he fails to condemn the occupation and ignores the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) on its 60th anniversary

    Action alert To view the Palestine Solidarity Campaign website, click here Prime Minister Brown’s speech to the Knesset was a declaration of support for the Zionist project of dispossession and subjugation and a betrayal of the Palestinian people’s legitimate hopes for recognition of their human and national rights. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is dismayed…

  • IWPS: Settlers spray unknown chemicals on Palestinian farmers

    To view the International Women’s Peace Service website, click here At approximately 5.30pm on July 21, 2008, two Palestinians farmers from Immatin in the Qalqiliya district were working on their land, in a valley close to Far’ata when they saw five settlers from the illegal Israeli outpost of Havat Gilad approaching, two on horses, three…

  • Apartheid military zone in Susiya

    After the settler attack on 20th of July in which two Palestinians and four internationals were arrested for no apparent reason, the Israeli army closed the valley between the villagers of Susiya and the nearby settlement. The army declared the area as a closed military zone for three days, until three o’clock the 22nd of…

  • Daily News Egypt: Scottish couple barred from delivering medical supplies at Gaza’s Rafah crossing

    By Eva Bartlett July 21, 2008 To view original article, published by the Daily News Egypt on 21st July, click here Ten days after setting out from Edinburgh, five days past their projected July 15 arrival, Scottish humanitarian Khalil Al Niss and his wife Linda Willis finally pulled up Sunday afternoon at the Gaza-Egypt Rafah…