• (New Video!) Demonstration against Ketziot raid in Hebron

    25 October Hebron *New video!* Palestinian residents in Hebron protesting the Ketziot prison attack were subject to an all-day onslaught of rubber bullets, tear gas and sound grenades by the Israeli soldiers. The protest took the form of a strike, organised by the Islamic National Forces in response to the killing of one Palestinian prisoner…

  • Action Alert! Non-Violent Demonstration at Al Mazra al Qiblya to Protest Illegal Confiscation of Palestinian Land

    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 nearly 500 dunums of land and planted grape vines on it. The state of Israel…

  • A United Front for Peace: Breaking the Siege on Gaza

    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 breaking the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip since June 2007. The aim of this…

  • Seattle P-I: Palestinians’ lives invisible to Israelis

    By Edward Mast On a visit to Tel Aviv last month, I asked some Israeli friends what people in Israel were saying about the Palestinian situation. Not much, they told me. Israelis are more concerned about the corruption charges against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, coming on the heels of corruption charges against previous governments. Palestinians…

  • PCHR: A Warning from Gaza

    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 PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva…