Tag: Deportation

  • ISM volunteer kidnapped from court–finally released

    8 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank An ISM volunteer was detained and threatened with deportation for participating in a peaceful, nonviolent demonstration in the village of Iraq Burin last week, and was finally released by Israel since there was no justification for her arrest or deportation. These weekly demonstrations come following the…

  • On July 8th we are flying for Palestinian freedom — and for our own

    3 July 2011 | Welcome to Palestine For Immediate Release Hundreds of internationals on their way to visit Palestinians in Gaza have been prevented from departing from the ports in Greece. However, we hope that on July 8th, 2011, hundreds of others of us from many countries will succeed in reaching Palestine by flying to…

  • Israel deports Spanish aid worker

    21 June 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza Ignacio Garcia-Pedraza, a Spanish PSCC worker and Al Quds University trainer, 36 years old and living in Madrid, has been informed this morning at 9:00 a.m. by the Israeli Ben Gurion airport authorities that he had been denied the entry into Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territory…

  • IDF order will enable mass deportation from West Bank

    Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 11 April 2010 A new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, or their indictment on charges carrying prison terms of up to seven years. When the order comes into effect, tens of…

  • Deported international activist appeals against her illegal arrest

    For immediate release 7 February 2010 The lawyer of Eva Nováková, the former International Solidarity Movement (ISM) media coordinator, who was taken from her apartment in Ramallah on 11 January 2010 and subsequently deported, filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice today to challenge the legality of her arrest. The official reason given…