Since 1976 Land Day is marked by Palestinians on the 30th of March to protest against the grabbing of Palestinian lands by Israel. This year, thousands of Palestinians, along with Israeli and international activists held a series of large-scale peaceful ...
Read More »Thousands of olive trees to be planted in land day demonstrations
On Land Day, Thursday March 30, thousands of Palestinians, along with Israeli and International activists will hold a series of large-scale peaceful protests. Demonstrations against ongoing Israeli land confiscation have been planned in the villages of Beit Sira (Ramallah area), ...
Read More »Settlers attempt large-scale assault on Palestinian village
Settlers on Wednesday from the illegal Israeli settlement of Sanur near Jenin — due to be evacuated as part of Israel’s “disengagement” plan — attempted to launch an assault on the Palestinian village of Assa’sa, clashing with the Israeli soldiers ...
Read More »Threats and worry in al-Asa’asa on the eve of Israeli disengagement
by Lee Al-Asa’asa is a village of 500 situated right next to the settlement of SaNur. Radical anti disengagement settlers from all over the West Bank, many from Hebron, have camped out at SaNur, surrounding the small military settlement with ...
Read More »Settlers hold Palestinians hostage as Northern West Bank pullout deadline looms
Hundreds of pro-settlement Israelis have flocked to the area around Jenin to protest the dismantling of four small settlements scheduled to be part of Israel’s disengagement plan for the northern part of the West Bank. Not exactly what you’d call ...
Read More »Trio of protests against the wall set for communities across the West Bank
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A trio of demonstrations are planned for Friday in villages and cities around the West Bank. If the Israeli military’s history is any indicator, violent response to the peaceful protests is expected. I. PROTESTING THE “BARRIER” IN ...
Read More »United by Hatred of Oppression
by Johann Hari Originally published by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer In the hills of Palestine, next to a village called Anin, three groups of people stood one recent afternoon amid clouds of tear gas and the boom of bullets to yell ...
Read More »Haaretz: Five ISM activists hurt by IDF troops in fence protest
By Arnon Regular Five peace activists were lightly injured yesterday in clashes with the Israel Defense Forces. The activists, members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), were demonstrating with hundreds of Palestinians from Kafr Anin and dozens of Israelis in ...
Read More »Communique from Tobias in jail
Hi all. So we´re down to 3. Me, Tarek and Fredrik here in cell #4. We are all in good spirits as we make an attempt to fight this injust deportation in the Supreme Court. As of now, we have ...
Read More »Letter from an Israeli Jail
The following was scribbled on a piece of paper by Tarek and passed to Huwaida via a lawyer during court proceedings for the deportation of 8 international peace activists on July 17, 2003. The hunger protest referred to was begun ...
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