Tag: Denial of Entry

  • Christmas in jail for peace campaigners

    An Italian peace activist was hospitalized Thursday after refusing to be deported from Israel. Italian, Vittorio Arrigoni, 34, was injured yesterday evening when Israeli authorities tried to deport him and two other detained UK residents,from South Africa and Ausralia, by force, according to Israeli lawyer Gaby Lasky. Lasky added that the authorities failed to notify…

  • Peace workers denied access to Bethlehem

    In the early hours of this morning the Israeli authorities at Tel Aviv airport stopped a group of international observers who were en route to a Christmas peace conference in Bethlehem. After lengthy interrogations, two (UK) were allowed to enter the country and three were denied entry on ‘security grounds’. The three (S Africa, Italy,…

  • Human Rights Worker Refuses Deportation, Put in Solitary Confinement in Tzohar Detention Center, Israel

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Andrew Macdonald, a Human Rights Worker from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), is still being held in solitary confinement at the Tzohar Detention Center in Israel. Even though he has been threatened by the Prison Commander, he maintains that “deporting people from Palestine is a matter for Palestinians to decide, not for…