Tag: Demonstration
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Palestinian prisoners families protest at Red Cross
ISM Gaza | Palestinian Prisoners 8 April 2009 Every Monday for years the families of the Palestinian prisoners are protesting at the offices of the Red Cross in Gaza City. These families have not been allowed to visit their relatives imprisoned in Israeli jails for almost 2 years. According to human rights organizations (including Israeli…
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Press conference held by parents of Tristan Anderson
23 March 2009 – Nancy and Michael Anderson hold a press conference about the condition of their son, Tristan Anderson, who was critically injured in Ni’lin when Israeli forces shot a tear-gas projectile directly at him.
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Sheikh Jarrah residents organize in the face of mass house evictions
Electronic Intifada 7 April 2009 “We are like the roots of a tree. The Israelis may cut us in places, but we will never die. We will not be transplanted from Jerusalem. I will not leave this house,” Maher Hanun tells a crowded room of Palestinian community members supported by Israeli and international solidarity activists.…
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Land Day demonstration in Halhul, Hebron district
At mid day on the 4th of April, around forty Palestinians from Halhul and the surrounding villages set off to cultivate land near the illegal settlement of Karmi Zur. Halhul is a village in the Hebron district of the southern West Bank. Demonstrators were also joined by Israeli and international solidarity activists. The protestors headed…
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Gazan fishermen protest against Israeli Navy attacks
ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 2 April 2009 On the 2nd of April, dozens of fishermen from the Salateen area in Beit Lahiya in the far north of Gaza, staged a march towards the coast to protest against recent Israeli naval attacks. The demonstrators were joined by the Director of the General Syndicate of…