6 March 2010 Thousands attended last Saturday’s demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah, demanding an end to the home evictions which have displaced hundreds of Palestinian residents. Gathering peacefully for speeches and live music in the park opposite the neighborhood, demonstrators chanted ...
Read More »Israeli military fail to crush the spirit of An Nabi Saleh
12 March 2010 The Israeli military today continued their attempts to repress the weekly demonstration in An Nabi Saleh. Following on from their near fatal shooting of a 14 year old boy a week ago, soldiers invaded the village within ...
Read More »West Bank rises up in a new ‘white’ intifada
Donald Macintyre | The Independent 12 March 2010 Ehab Barghouti would not have been at the demonstration at all if his father Asdal had had his way. Asdal found his son, 14, on the road from their village of Beit ...
Read More »State to reinvestigate wounding of U.S. activist
Cnaan Liphshiz | Ha’aretz 12 March 2010 The state this week agreed to reinvestigate the 2009 near-fatal wounding of American pro-Palestinian protester Tristan Anderson in the West Bank, after his lawyer complained that the discontinued probe of the case was ...
Read More »Family Appeals Decision to Close Investigation on Shooting of US Citizen Tristan Anderson
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 12 March 2010 This week the parents of Tristan Anderson filed an appeal on the decision to close the investigation concerning their son’s injury.– The 38 year-old American was critically injured by a high velocity tear ...
Read More »Legal proceedings to evict Sheikh Jarrah family postponed
11 March 2010 Today in the West Jerusalem Shalom court, activists gathered from around the world to support two Sheikh Jarrah families in their eviction trial only to learn that the trial will be postponed. Jewish settlers have occupied the ...
Read More »UPDATE: Boy critically injured by Israeli Forces in An Nabi Saleh in a coma
International Solidarity Movement 8 March 2010 UPDATE: Ehab Fadel Beir Ghouthi, who was shot by Israeli Occupation Forces on Friday during the weekly demonstration has been in intensive care since reaching the hospital in Ramallah. On Monday 8 March, after ...
Read More »Israel: end crackdown on Anti-Wall activists
Human Rights Watch 5 March 2010 Israel should immediately end its arbitrary detention of Palestinians protesting the separation barrier, Human Rights Watch said today. Israel is building most of the barrier inside the West Bank rather than along the Green ...
Read More »Demonstrators Block Route 60 Near Beit Ummar
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 6 March 2010 Demonstrators protesting the deceleration of the Cave of the Patriarchs and Joseph’s Tomb as Israeli heritage sites, manged to block the main road from Jerusalem to Hebron. In response to the inclusion of ...
Read More »Israeli Forces Critically Injure Boy in An Nabi Saleh
International Solidarity Movement 5 March 2010 Demonstrators in An Nabi Salih were met with tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and sound bombs. The IOF also fired skunk, a putrid-smelling chemical spray. One international was hit with a metal tear gas ...
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