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House Confiscation in Old City Hebron
On Thursday, March 20 and Friday the 21st the Israeli army invaded a family’s home in Hebron. International and Palestinian Human Rights Workers were able to stall them for one day, but on Friday they returned, evicted the family, confiscated the house, and welded the door shut to prevent anyone from returning. In the process, they also arrested the owner of the house and one Palestinian HRW.
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JPOST: PA urges Palestinians to ‘return’
Original article published in the Jerusalem Post on March 18th. For original article click here The Palestinian Authority is planning to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary by calling on all Palestinians living abroad to converge on Israel by land, sea and air. The plan, drawn by Ziad Abu Ein, a senior Fatah operative and Deputy Minister […]
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UPDATE: Blake Murphy is deported to the US
Blake Murphy, an American activist from Bedford, MA, working in the West Bank, was beaten and arrested by Israeli army and police forces on Friday 14th March 2008. He has had to face a series of evidently false charges from the Israeli authorities due to his work supporting non-violent resistance to the occupation of Palestine. […]