Tag: Popular Struggle Coordination Committee
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Twenty demonstrators injured in Nabbi Saleh
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 8 January 2010 For immediate release: As part of a recent surge in popular protest in the West Bank, about 300 demonstrators occupied and blocked the main road in near the Halamish settlement for over two hours. The demonstrators, twenty of which were injured by rubber-coated bullets, protested recent land grabs.…
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Abdallah Abu Rahmah: No army, no prison and no wall can stop us
Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah January 6, 2010 To all our friends, I mark the beginning of the new decade imprisoned in a military detention camp. Nevertheless, from within the occupation′s holding cell I meet the New Year with determination and hope. I know that Israel’s military campaign to imprison the leadership of the Palestinian popular…
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Demonstrators to protest closure of Beituniya military checkpoint in solidarity with families of Palestinian political prisoners and in support of lawyers’ strike
29 December 2009 The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee and the Palestinian Society Prisoners’ Club called for a demonstration on Tuesday, 29 December 2009, to protest the closure of the Beituniya checkpoint, the only access route for many families and lawyers of prisoners held at Ofer military prison. All visitors must now go through the Qalandiya…
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Display of used tear gas canisters shot by the army earns Bil’in activist an arms charge in Israeli military court
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 23 December 2009 For immediate release: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a school teacher and coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall, was indicted in an Israeli military court yesterday. Abu Rahmah was slapped with an arms possession charge for collecting used tear gas canisters shot at demonstrators in Bil’in by…
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Night raids conducted by Israeli forces resume in the village of Bil’in: One Palestinian resident arrested
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 3 December 2009 For immediate release: Night raids, conducted by the Israeli army as a part of the ongoing arrest campaign in an attempt to crush the popular struggle against the Apartheid Wall and settlements in the Palestinian village of Bil’in have resumed in the early hours of Thursday, 3 December.…
