• This court case was my only hope: Arafat Hassan Abdel Dayem

    13 March 2013| Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Occupied Palestine At approximately 07:30 am on 5 January 2009, during ‘Operation Cast Lead’, Israeli forces fired a tank shell at the house of Hany Abdel Dayem. At the time of the attack, members of the Dayem family were mourning the death of a family member named Arafa, a medic, who had been killed in an Israeli attack on the previous day while he was on duty treating other injured…

  • South African educationist denied entry into Palestine

    12 March 2013| Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Occupied Palestine Well-known South African educationist and human rights activist, Dr Salim Vally, was today detained, interrogated and denied entry into Palestine by Israeli security forces when he attempted to enter the country from Jordan. Dr Vally, director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg, was invited by the German foundation, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), to deliver a series of lectures in the West…

  • Farmers attacked by Israeli army and settlers, preventing them from planting olive trees in memory of Rachel Corrie

    12th March 2013 International Solidarity Movement, Occupied Palestine By Lisa Marchant Farmers peacefully planting olive trees in the land of Asira al Qiblya were today disrupted by Israeli soldiers who halted the planting. The presence of Palestinians on their own land also attracted the attention of illegal settlers from the nearby settlement of Yizhar, leading to them attacking Palestinians farmers and volunteers, throwing and catapulting stones. The army moved immediately to protect the attackers, shooting tear…

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