FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Ramallah, Occupied Palestine] Over the last week Palestinians from across the political spectrum have issued impassioned appeals and demonstrated for the release of the four Christian Peacemaker Team volunteers who were taken hostage in Iraq, three of ...
Read More »Statement by the National Committee to Resist Settlement and the Wall on the CPT Hostages in Iraq
The Palestinian National Authority The National Committee to Resist the Wall and Settlement Office of the Coordinator of the Committee Ramallah, Palestine November 30, 2005 A PLEA TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE From Palestine we call upon you to release the ...
Read More »Statement by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Palestine on the CPT Hostages in Iraq
From your brothers in arms, the sons of the same blood who have suffered from one enemy, to the fighters against the invaders in Iraq, at a time when we are engaged in one battle against a single unjust plan ...
Read More »Statement by the Palestinian National and Islamic Forces in Hebron on the CPT Hostages in Iraq
In the name of God, the Compassionate and Merciful “O ye who believe! If a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly, and afterwards become full of repentance for what ye ...
Read More »Statement by the Palestinian National and Islamic Forces on the CPT Hostages in Iraq
The National and Islamic Forces are alarmed and much disturbed to learn about the kidnapping of four members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Iraq. Most disturbing are allegations of espionage against those people who in fact are acting ...
Read More »Kiriat Arba Police arrest one Human Rights Worker; IDF assault Human Rights Workers and steal cameras and passport in Tel Rumeida, Hebron
UPDATE: This morning (6th December), the Tel Rumeida Project HRW was released from Kiriat Arba police station without conditions. He was never brought to Jerusalem as the police had threatened. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE One Human Rights Worker from The Tel ...
Read More »Israel Ready to Deport Peace Activist Scot for Second Time
by Billy Briggs Originally published in The Herald A Scottish peace activist is facing deportation from Israel for the second time. Andrew MacDonald, 31, from Spean Bridge, Lochaber, near Fort William, is currently being held in a detention centre near ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Human Rights Worker refuses deportation; Threatened by Police Officer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 01:15 on Thursday morning, Andrew Macdonald, a Human Rights Worker from the ISM, refused deportation from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. The refusal is a protest against the State of Israel’s policy of deporting ...
Read More »Palestinians offer their help to gain freedom for kidnapped CPTers
Palestinians led by their top Muslim cleric appealed to Iraqi insurgents Wednesday to release four Western peace activists, saying three of them had spent time in the West Bank aiding the Palestinians. The banner on the right reads in Arabic: ...
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