• Bil’in demonstration commemorates Basem Abu Rahme

    Bil’in Popular Committee 29 May 2009 After Friday prayers, the people began the weekly demonstration at Bil ‘in, in which a group of international, Palestinian and Israelis from peace and anti-occupation movements gather to resist the building of the wall around the village in order to regain land that was taken in 2004. This Friday, demonstrators marched through the village towards the wall waving Palestinian flags, chanting anti-Zionist slogans demanding the cessation of the occupation and…

  • Settlers attack Palestinian farmers as they work their land in Saffa

    Ha’aretz 30 May 2009 Clashes erupted on Saturday between settlers and left-wing activists who were trying to help Palestinians with agricultural work near the village of Safa in the West Bank. Activists from the Jewish-Arab rights group Ta’ayush arrived at the village, which is located near the settlement of Bat Ayin, and were attacked by 15 to 20 masked settlers, according to one of the activists. Activist Mairav Zonszein told Haaretz that the settlers assaulted the…

  • International human rights workers to accompany Gazan farmers near the ‘buffer zone’ despite Israeli threats

    For Immediate Release: Sunday, 31 May 2009: Four international human rights workers from the ISM-Gaza Strip will be accompanying farmers from Khoza as they harvest crops next to the Green Line, for a second day. In the morning, human rights workers will join Palestinian farmers in Khoza village, located east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, to farm land about 400 meters from the ‘Green Line’. The farmers will continue their work despite recent…

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