Tag: International law

  • 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 Line, in violation of international humanitarian law. In recent months, Israeli military authorities have arbitrarily…

  • 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…

  • Candlelight demonstration remembers the martyrs of Nablus and Gaza

    2 January 2010 A demonstration was held in the northern West Bank city of Nablus last night to mark the anniversary of the 3-week assault launched on Gaza one year ago that left over 1,400 Palestinians dead, and to mourn the assassination of 3 men by Israeli soldiers in Nablus last week. Demonstrators filled Nablus’…

  • Gaza Freedom Marchers issue the ‘Cairo Declaration’ to end Israeli Apartheid

    1 January 2010 Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to join with Palestinians marching to break Israel’s illegal siege. They were prevented from entering Gaza…

  • Gaza Freedom March activists refuse to be silent!

    Action for Peace 31 December 2009 The Italian delegation of Action for Peace at the Gaza Freedom March walked today in the streets of Cairo with all other delegations in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to call for an end of the siege on Gaza, the end of the Israeli occupation, the respect of international…