Tag: Wa’el al-Faqeeh Abu as-Sabe
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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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Demonstration demanding the release of Palestinian political prisoners to be held in Nablus on Tuesday, 29 December
28 December 2009 For immediate release: A demonstration will be held in Nablus on Tuesday 29 December 2009 to demand the release of all Palestinian prisoners. Almost 8,000 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons. Among them are grassroots activists Jamal Juma’ and Mohammad Othman from the Stop the Wall Campaign, Adeeb Abu Rahmah and…
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Breaking Palestine’s peaceful protest
Neve Gordon | The Guardian 23 December 2009 Palestinians have a long history of nonviolent resistance but Israel has continuously deployed methods to destroy it “Why,” I have often been asked, “haven’t the Palestinians established a peace movement like the Israeli Peace Now?” The question itself is problematic, being based on many erroneous assumptions, such…