Tag: Ramallah

  • Belfast women protest expansion of settlements in the West Bank

    A group of women from the Falls Road, Women’s Centre in Belfast, Ireland, today joined the International Women’s Peace Service in a demonstration against the expansion of settlements in Palestine’s West Bank. About 60 women, many from an international organization called Women in Black, protested outside the Ariel Settlement, the largest of the illegal settlements…

  • Israeli kills three Palestinians

    An Israeli has opened fire at a group of Palestinians in the West Bank, killing three people, in a shooting that coincided with Israel’s Gaza withdrawal. Read the rest here.

  • Hundreds trapped in Ramallah as all exit points closed for afternoon

    Soldiers set up a “flying checkpoint” outside Ramallah, near the village of Surda on Sunday. By Sarita and Andrew Ambulances, commerce, people traveling to work or heading home were all brought to a halt Sunday in Ramallah as Israeli soldiers closed all exit and entry points to the city following a shooting by Al Aqsa…