• Nobel peace laureate jailed in Israel for Gaza activism

    Jonathan Lis | Ha’aretz 6 July 2009 A Nobel Peace Prize winner and a former U.S. congresswoman are among eight people to be released today and expelled after having sailed on a protest ship heading to Gaza from Cyprus, the Israeli Interior Ministry says. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976…

  • ‘Israeli doctors to train Bil’in protesters in first aid at site of disputed security fence’

    Ilana Strauss | The Jerusalem Post 5 July 2009 Physicians for Human Rights will be offering a first aid course on July 11 near the security barrier at the West Bank village of Bil’in for protesters to help them deal with injuries they incur in almost weekly confrontations with what the group’s doctors call an…

  • Ni’lin demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall

    3 July 2009 On Friday after the midday prayer, Palestinian residents, with the support of international and Israeli solidarity activists, gathered to demonstrate against construction of the Apartheid Wall in Ni’lin. Demonstrators gathered and marched to the Apartheid Wall, where several cut away razor wire that runs alongside the Wall. Six jeeps were already at…

  • Israeli forces invades Bil’in Village and kidnap two youths

    Bil’in Popular Committee 5 July 2009 At approximately 4:15 on the morning of 5.7.09 more than 100 Israeli Soldiers invaded Bilin Village. Many of them were masked and all carried automatic weapons. They attacked several houses and arrested Oda Rebhe Abu Rahma, 20, and Mahmoud Issa Yassein, 17. Upon request the soldiers would not tell…

  • Al Jazeera interview with Mairead Maguire

    Free Gaza Movement 5 July 2009 The Israeli prison guards are denying the right for Mairead to access her medicine. Continue to email and call Mark Regev and Shlomo Dror and express your outrage over the treatment of the FreeGaza21 while they are imprisoned. The women have no access to their luggage or their clothing.…