• The Occupy movement and Palestine

    The Occupy movement and Palestine

    by Yousef Aljamal 9 January 2012 | Center for Political and Development Studies The Occupy movement is an international protest movement directed primarily against economic and social inequality. The first Occupy protest to receive wide coverage was Occupy Wall Street in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, which began on September 17, 2011. It was noticed that a majority among the participants in the movement were pro-Palestinians, who took to the streets holding banners that read “Occupy…

  • 8 January 2009: The Al-Rahel family

    8 January 2009: The Al-Rahel family

    8 January 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “The other children keep talking about Dima and the memories of both incidents. ‘We wish to die like Dima’ is what the children sometimes say to me because of all the stress and our poor living conditions.” On 8 January 2009, at approximately 11:00, four missiles were fired at the house of Juma’a al-Rahel (45) in Beit Lahiya, injuring 3 members of the extended al-Rahel family: Basma…

  • Kufr ad-Dik resists by the hundreds

    by Jonathon 7 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The residents of Kufr ad-Dik sent a clear and strong message of resistance to the Israeli authorities,  just the second of planned weekly demonstrations in the village thus far. There were approximately 250 residents who attended the demonstration, with a number of Israeli and international activists also present to resist the planned further expansion of  several illegal settlements besieging the village. Should construction go ahead,…

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