Archive for March, 2006

How Can I Stop You?

Saturday, March 25th, 2006 | Posted in Journals, Hebron Region, Photos

By Mary

Tuesday March 21st 2006

At about 8pm, there was a lot of yelling in the street outside the internationals apartment in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. Israeli soldiers were demanding that men from the building opposite came down to the street. Two men came...

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The story of Saeed Abu Salah

Saturday, March 25th, 2006 | Posted in Journals, Gaza Region, Photos

by Laila El-Haddad

Saeed Abu Salah is a patient man. Judging from all he has endured during the past four years at least. Abu Salah-40 years old with graying hair and eyes the color of chestnuts, and 20 children from separate two marriages-lives...

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Beit Sira Demonstration 24th March 2006

Saturday, March 25th, 2006 | Posted in Reports, Photos, Beit Sira Village

Just like many other Palestinian towns and villages, Beit Sira has it’s share of grotesque Israeli annexation barriers and surrounding of isolating settlements. In this case Makabim settlement. An ongoing expansion of land theft has resulted in thousands...

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The pen may prove mightier than the word

Friday, March 24th, 2006 | Posted in Press clippings, Rachel Corrie

Friday, March 24, 2006

By MAKEBA SCOTT HUNTER
HERALD NEWS

Despite the cancellation of a theater production based on the writings of the late human-rights activist, some 1,200 people packed into Harlem’s Riverside Church Wednesday night for an alternate production - pulled together in two weeks by friends...

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Destruction and Defiance in the Shadow of Bethlehem

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 | Posted in Journals, Photos, Bethlehem Region

By Tom
March 22 2006

Unable to enter the al-Walaja village, I waited for close to an hour at the Har Gill'o turnoff until I could hear the sounds of 2 giant earth-movers, courtesy of Volvo and the Israeli government. The police refused to respond to questions,...

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Palestinians to smash illegal settlement Friday 24th of March

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 | Posted in Press Releases, Bil'in Village, ISM Media Alerts, Beit Sira Village

Villagers of Bil’in will use replica judge’s hammers to smash models of Modi’in Elite expansion of Metityahu Mizrah settlement. On Tuesday 21st March the High Court of Justice ordered the state to explain why a criminal investigation should not be opened against those responsible for issuing illegal building permits and why the houses should...

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CPT Statement: CPTers Released

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 | Posted in Press Releases, International Actions, Hebron Region

Released by the Christian Peacemaker Teams

Vigil for CPT hostages in Hebron

Our hearts are filled with joy today as we heard that Harmeet...

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Three peace activists freed in Iraq

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 | Posted in Press clippings, International Actions, Hebron Region

From the BBC

Norman Kember, 74, of Pinner, north-west London, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, were three of four men seized in Baghdad in November.

Mr Kember is said to be in a “reasonable condition” while the two Canadians were taken to hospital....

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IDF officers targeted again for arrest

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 | Posted in Press clippings

Published in The Jerusalem Post
By JPOST.COM STAFF

In what was the third time in the past eight months that a senior IDF officer was subjected to accusations of war crimes and the possibility of arrest in a foreign...

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Two young boys arrested in Beit Sira

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 | Posted in Reports, Beit Sira Village

By Anna Svensson

Today, in the village of Beit Sira, Israeli occupation forces stopped a group of school children between the ages of 8 to 16 walking home from school. The soldiers had with them photos that where taken at the demonstrations against the apartheid-wall held in the village. After checking all the students, two were then supposedly...

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