Tag: Arrests
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Protesters commemorate the Nakba at Qalandyia
15 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement From 11.00 this morning until 21.00 at night, the International Solidarity Movement joined with thousands of Palestinians and other Internationals in commemorating the Nakba by demonstrating at Qalandiya checkpoint which separates the West Bank from Jerusalem and the rest of pre-1948 Palestine. As protesters united in denouncing the…
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Israeli forces violently arrest demonstrators in al-Walaja
15 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At 11 AM on al-Nakba remembrance day, 500 residents from the West Bank village of al-Wallajeh and international supporters marched towards the Israeli Apartheid Wall. The Wall was built to separate the villagers from their original land from which they were expelled in 1948. The demonstration was violently…
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UN Special Rapporteur on torture to give expert opinion on the arrest of minors in Israeli military court
10 May 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The Special Rapporteur’s expert opinion will be filed to the Ofer Military Court by the defense next Monday in a pre-trial hearing in the case of 14 year-old Islam Dar Ayyoub who was taken from his bed at gun-point by Israeli soldiers in the middle of the…
