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: ...
Read More »Palestinians appeal for release of Western activists kidnapped in Iraq
By ASSOCIATED PRESS RAMALLAH Palestinians, led by their top Muslim cleric, appealed to Iraqi insurgents on Wednesday to release four Western peace activists, saying three of them had spent time in the West Bank aiding the Palestinians. The four workers ...
Read More »Widerstand bedeutet, in Hebron zu bleiben
UN-Solidaritätstag mit dem palästinensischen Volk: Internationale Präsenz in den besetzten Gebieten Interview by Wladek Flakin Ursprünglich innen veröffentlicht Junge Welt Die Israelin Neta Golan ist Mitbegründerin der International Solidarity Movement (ISM) und lebt in Ramallah im Westjordanland. F: Am Dienstag ...
Read More »Resistance means to stay in Hebron
Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People: International Presence in the occupied Territories Interview by Wladek Flakin Originally published in Junge Welt An Interview with Neta Golan – Neta Golan is Israeli and a founding member of the International Solidarity Movement ...
Read More »Sabbath Riot by Settlers in Hebron
by ISM activists in Hebron On the 26th of November in the West Bank, a large number of armed Israeli Settlers visiting Hebron for the commemoration of the Biblical character Abraham’s burial of Sarah broke Palestinian property and assaulted Palestinians. ...
Read More »Settler Mobs Attack Palestinians and Besiege Internationals In Hebron
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Between 2pm and 5pm today, a hostile mob of between 100 and 150 Israeli settlers visiting from outside Hebron besieged five Human Rights Observers (HROs) and one photo-journalist inside the HROs’ apartment in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. Palestinian ...
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