17 September 2007 In a continuing demonstration of Israel’s arbitrary denial of entry policy, and disregard for the Palestinian population’s right to practice their religion and worship freely, Father Faris Khaleifat, priest of Ramallah’s Greek Catholic Melkite Church was barred ...
Read More »Pulling Up Illegal Settlement From the Root
Report: Al Mazra al Qiblya 22nd August 2007 A demonstrator holds a pulled up seedling planted on confiscated Palestinian land Approximately 60 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists joined together to protest and take non-violent direct action against the illegal confiscation ...
Read More »Atira: Road Closures Restrict Palestinians from leaving their own Village
Atira – 12th August 2007 At 8:00am, Palestinian, Israeli and international activists participated in a demonstration against the closure of the only road leading out of the village of Atira. Approximately 60 people gathered together chanting slogans and waving banners ...
Read More »5 Birzeit students arrested as Israeli army continues to target student population
Original Article Link Right to Education Campaign, Birzeit University, 1 August 2007 In the last 3 days, 5 Birzeit University students were arrested by the Israeli army, most of whom belong to the university’s Student Council. The detainees are; Eyad ...
Read More »The Road to Peace Passes Through Our Three Villages
A “March of Return” to the Destroyed Villages of Latroun by the ISM Media Crew On Saturday, June 16, Palestinians from the destroyed villages of Latroun will once again return to their land. They will be joined by Israeli and ...
Read More »Israeli Forces Carry Out Targeted Assassination of Palestinian in Ramallah
For report by Sam Bahour click AL-HAQ PRESS RELEASE As a human rights organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Al-Haq is gravely disturbed by the extrajudicial execution carried out on ...
Read More »Commemorating the Nakba in Ramallah
from Kim and Anjelka, IWPS, 17 May 2007 Al Nakba, which means “the catastrophe” in Arabic, is the name given by the Palestinians to the 1948 UN partition of British Mandate Palestine, establishment of the state of Israel and the ...
Read More »The road back to Ramallah
by: -bat. Katie and I head out of Hebron in a service taxi, one of the large ones this time, and retrace the route I had taken the night before. It had been dark when I arrived, but now it ...
Read More »Roadblock went tumbling down the gorge
The roadblock went tumbling down the gorge by Kobi Snitz, 3 May 2007 Today, villagers from Ras Karkar, Budrus, Beit Likya, Bilin, Deir Ibzia and other villages marched towards an intersection on the main road to Ramallah which until 7 ...
Read More »Demonstration Against the Apartheid Road System
Villagers from villages west of Ramallah, together with international and Israeli peace activists will attempt to remove the roadblocks that prevent them from accessing road 455 that is reserved for the Israeli settlers use only. The demonstration will leave from ...
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