31 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement This morning Maher Abu Sab’a’ discovered that 248 out of the 250 olive tree saplings that had recently been planted on his land had been destroyed over-night. The saplings which had been planted ...
Read More »Bloody Nakba Day; 16 killed, 400 injured as Israeli troops attack protesters
16 May 2011 | Palestine News Network As protests commemorating Nakba ended on Sunday night sources confirmed that Israeli military attacks on those protests left 16 killed and 400 injured. Israeli troops attacked Nakba protests in several parts of the ...
Read More »Military Judge Criticizes Police; Releases the Bethlehem Ten
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 01 April 2010 Judge Dahan of the Ofer Military Court in the West Bank ordered the release of the ten peaceful demonstrators arrested in Bethlehem last Sunday, among them PLO Executive Committee’s Abbas Zaki. The judge ...
Read More »Racial Discrimination By Israeli Police: Bethlehem Peaceful Protesters Still Detained
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 29 March 2010 While the Israeli and international protesters detained in Bethlehem yesterday have been released, the police extended the arrest of the ten Palestinians, including PLO Executive Committee Member, Abbas Zaki, by 96 hours under ...
Read More »15 Arrested in Bethlehem Demo incl. PLO Executive Committee Member
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 28 March 2010 Israeli forces arrested 15 demonstrators, including Abbas Zaki of the PLO Executive Committee, during a Bethlehem demonstration to mark Palm Sunday and protest Israeli restrictions on movement. An AP photographer and four members ...
Read More »Activists work to stop wall construction and uprooting of olive trees in Beit Jala
Beit Jala Popular Committee 4 March 2010 In the early morning on March 2, 2010, Israeli bulldozers started uprooting ancient olive trees in the garden of a Palestinian family in the town of Beit Jala, North-West of Bethlehem, in order ...
Read More »CPT: Netanyahu statement on Ibrahimi Mosque leads to unrest in Hebron
Christian Peacemaker Team 22 February 2010 On 21 February 2010 Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced the Israeli government’s intention to designate as Jewish heritage sites Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem and the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. Netanyahu’s statement has led to ...
Read More »Peaceful Al Ma’sara Demonstration Faces Continued Aggression
International Solidarity Movement 19 February 2010 The peaceful demonstration in the Occupied West Bank village of Al Ma’sara by Palestinians and Internationals was aggressively dispersed using tear gas & sound bombs, today, by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). This is the ...
Read More »Peaceful Protest in Al Masara Halted
International Solidarity Movement 12 February 2010 Yesterday around 1pm, a peaceful demonstration at Al Masara was stopped by the Israeli army when tear gas and sound bombs were unexpectedly thrown into the crowd. The protest comprised of around 20 Palestinians, ...
Read More »New Year in al-Ma’asara marked with another weekly demonstration against the Apartheid Wall
Al-Ma’asara Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements 1 January 2010 Over 150 local activists protested today in al-Ma’asara and the neighboring villages against the construction of the illegal Apartheid Wall and settlements on the lands of the nine intertwined ...
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