• Right of Entry: Adnan and Manal

    Adnan Muhammad Hasan Khalil, American citizen of Palestinian descent, emigrated from the West Bank as a youth in 1976 and returned ten years ago to get married. At that time, he applied to the Israeli authorities for Family Unification (FU) in order to secure permanent residency in the West Bank. His wife Manal holds a…

  • (Updated) …Blocking the road to Apartheid: Palestinian nonviolent protestors are blocking highway 443

    By: Apartheid Masked For another video of the action click here: October 25th, 2007 An anti-apartheid protest today blocked busy Highway 443, one of many highways that run on occupied Palestinian land but are reserved for Israelis only. Israeli Security forces used force to move the demonstrators. Three of the protesters, Blake Murphy, from Boston…

  • Soldiers kick and strike Tel Rumeida children with their guns

    The night of October 22nd, 2007 Tel Rumeida, Hebron Human Rights Workers (HRWs) last night witnessed eight Israeli soldiers attacking three Palestinian youths at the Tel Rumeida checkpoint, kicking them and striking them with their guns. One of the youths had allegedly insulted a soldier some nights ago, and since then at least three young…

  • Daily News Egypt: US court dismisses Caterpillar case filed by Rachel Corrie and Palestinian families

    By: Jonas Moffat In September, a US Court of Appeals dismissed a case against Caterpillar, Inc., which alleged seven claims, including aiding and abetting war crimes, extrajudicial killing, wrongful death, and other serious human rights violations. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) took the case on behalf of the family of Rachel Corrie and four…

  • An example of what happens every day in Tel Rumeida

    Demonstrating the unjust and inhumane nature of Israeli Occupation Force checkpoints, today a family was delayed for over one hour as they tried to bring cooking gas to their home. The checkpoint is located on the boundary between areas known as H1 and H2. H1 is controlled by the Palestinian Authority, H2 is under official…