Tag: Arrests

  • Bil’in under attack

    Alternative Information Center (AIC) 30 July 2009 Five years ago the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion declaring that the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is illegal and should be dismantled. After five years of silence and complicity by the international community in perpetrating this crime, several villages across the Occupied…

  • A demonstration will be held outside the demolished Darwish Hijazi home in Sheikh Jarrah

    UPDATE: All activists were given a condition to stay out of East Jerusalem for 3 weeks and will be released later today. For Immediate Release: 4pm, Monday 27 July 2009: A demonstration will be held outside the Darwish Hijazi home to protest the demolition of the home and the ethnic cleansing of occupied East Jerusalem.…

  • Settlers occupy and damage Sheikh Jarrah home

    Ma’an News 26 July 2009 Residents on Sunday tried unsuccessfully to prevent Israeli settlers and police from reaching a home owned by Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. During the incident former Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Hatim Abdul Qader was detained, apparently while trying to block more attacks on a home that…