Archive for the 'Press Releases' Category
Three injured in Bilin weekly protest
Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | Posted in Press Releases, Reports, Bil'in VillageFormer Iraq hostage, assaulted, unlawfully deported by Israel for human rights work, files official complaint
Monday, September 29th, 2008 | Posted in Press Releases, Denial of entryAUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – Harmeet Singh Sooden, who was held hostage in Iraq for four months in 2005-2006, has filed an official complaint to the governments of Canada and New Zealand and the United Nations for human rights violations committed against him by the Government of Israel in the course of denying him entry to the Occupied Palestinian...
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Letter of Palestinian Refugee Organizations to President Mahmoud Abbas
Friday, September 26th, 2008 | Posted in Press Releases, 1948 PalestineThe following letter was presented to President Mahmoud Abbas’s office on behalf of 78 Palestinian organizations on Wednesday September 22, 2008
Dear Mr. President,
Greetings of Return
We, the undersigned Palestinian refugee organizations, civil society movements and institutions in the Palestinian...
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ISM Rafah: Israeli navy continues to harass Gazan fishermen
Friday, September 19th, 2008 | Posted in Press Releases, Reports, Gaza RegionGaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine, 18th September 2008 - On Thursday 18th September, at least 7 Palestinian fishing boats left Gaza City port to trawl in Gazan Territorial waters. The Israeli Navy continued it’s daily attacks and harassments on Palestinian fishermen and their boats.
Today the Navy boat with the water cannon was not...
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Israeli forces abduct minors from Ni’lin
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | Posted in Press Releases, Reports, Ramallah RegionNi’lin - Thursday September 10th 2008
At 2am Thursday September 10th Israeli forces invaded the West bank village of Ni’lin and arrested 9 persons, three of them are under 18 and are still being kept in jail.
Israeli forces invaded the village in the early hours of the morning, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated steel...
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Israeli navy to Gazan fishermen: “When the internationals leave Gaza, you will all be made to pay”
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | Posted in Press Releases, Reports, Gaza RegionGazan coastal waters, Gaza, 17:00 Wednesday 10th September 2008 – At high speed an Israeli gunboat rammed a Palestinian fishing vessel. The gunboat smashed through the upper hull, careened over the top of the fishing boat, and landed on the other side.
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Egyptian activists in Ismailia : “Police is still stopping us and we attend to stay there till tomorrow”
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | Posted in Press Releases, International Actions, Gaza RegionEgyptian Committee Against the Gaza Siege: At 8am this morning (10th September), a first group from the Egyptian Committee Against the Gaza Siege, mainly Labor Party’s members, left Cairo in 4 micro-buses with food and medicine to go and try to break the criminal siege of Gaza.
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B’Tselem Report: Israel increased area of dozens of settlements east of the Separation Barrier by tens of thousands of dunams
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | Posted in Press ReleasesISM re-establish presence in the Gaza Strip
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | Posted in Press Releases, Gaza Region, VideoThe International Solidarity Movement would like to announce the re-establishment of a presence in the Gaza Strip. International solidarity activists will be based in Rafah in efforts to show support for non-violent direct action against the Israeli occupation.
