Tag: Wa’el al-Faqeeh Abu as-Sabe
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Wa’el al Faqeeh released from Israeli prison
UPDATE | 17 November 2010: Wa’el al-Faqeeh was released from Israeli prison today and is back in his Nablus home. The International Solidarity Movement strongly condemned his arrest, which marked an escalation in Israeli targeting of Palestinian popular resistance leaders. Wa’el has been a irreplaceable grassroots organizer in the Nablus area and we are ecstatic…
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Popular struggle organizer Wa’el Al-Faqeeh sentenced to one year
18 July 2010 International Solidarity Movement Palestinian human rights activist Wa’el Al-Faqeeh has been sentenced to one year in Israeli military prison, on the charge of aiding an illegal organization. Al-Faqeeh was arrested by the Israeli military on 9 December 2009, thus due to be released in December of this year. The sentence was handed…
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Palestine: Israeli crackdown exposes its aims
Bridget Chappell | GreenLeft 27 May 2010 Israel has exposed the extent of its crackdown on resistance to its occupation in an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on April 29. It claimed the Israeli Shin Bet intelligence agency has been conducting surveillance on myself, a non-violent activist and Australian citizen, in Area A of…