Archive for the 'Ramallah Region' Category

Demonstration against Apartheid Roads

Sunday, November 4th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Ramallah Region, Disengagement

On Sunday, November 3, 2007 , Palestinians delivered a message to Condoleezza Rice on the Israeli-only 443 highway: The segregation that Condoleezza’s parents suffered from and struggled against did not die in Alabama, but lives today in Palestine. The demonstration took place on the side of road 443, above the bridge near Beit Ur that runs...

Read more

Anti-Apartheid Demonstration this Sunday near Beit Ur

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Ramallah Region, ISM Media Alerts, Action Alert

On Sunday, at 10 am, November 4th a demonstration against the apartheid road system will take place on the Israeli-only 443 highway. The demonstration will take place at the bridge near Beit Ur that runs above the Palestinian only tunnel that runs beneath the highway.

For seven years now, Highway 443 has been accessible to Israelis only....

Read more

Bedouin Village facing demolition near Bir Nabala

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Ramallah Region


*A villager looks toward the Apartheid Wall that has separated the village members. 18 members of the village are behind the Wall, which now takes 2 hours driving to reach.*

In September this year, a village...

Read more

13 Palestinians arrested in Al-Mazra’a Al-Qibliya

Monday, October 29th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Ramallah Region, ISM Media Alerts

** Update **
On October 31st, the Israeli army invaded Al-Mazra’a Al-Qibliya and arrested eight more people. It seems they are to be charged with exactly the same crimes the three British women formerly imprisoned were charged with. Those allegations proved to be false and the women released. More information will come as it is known.

October...

Read more

Brighton-Tubas Fellowship: Life in the women’s prison

Monday, October 29th, 2007 | Posted in Journals, Ramallah Region

Two days ago I attended a peaceful demonstration of villagers against the theft of their land by villagers. I found my self assaulted and ‘arrested’ by a settler with the acquiescence of the Isreali army, lied to by the Israeli police, dumped in the punishment block of the women’s prison, driven for miles to the Ministry of the Interior deportation...

Read more

Brighton-Tubas Fellowship: Three British nationals go to trial after non-violent demonstration

Saturday, October 27th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Ramallah Region, ISM Media Alerts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Brighton-Tubas Fellowship:

For more info contact Tom Hayes on 00447846506710 or Ann on 0522354477

***Update, after being sent to the Ministry of the Interior to begin the process of deportation, the three women were released.

Three British women, Kate Harrison, Caroline Bailey and Sarah Cobham...

Read more

Ha’aretz: Protesters block Highway 443 to protest ban on Palestinian traffic

Friday, October 26th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Ramallah Region

Israeli and Palestinian demonstrators blocked Highway 443 early Thursday morning to protest the ban on Palestinian vehicles from the road, which is a major artery connecting Jerusalem to Lod, Army Radio reported.

The protesters, a coalition of Jewish and Arab members of leftist organizations, carried signs which read, among other slogans,...

Read more

Action Alert! Non-Violent Demonstration at Al Mazra al Qiblya to Protest Illegal Confiscation of Palestinian Land

Friday, October 26th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Ramallah Region, ISM Media Alerts, Action Alert

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

26 October, 2007

Palestinian villagers from al Mazra al Qiblya will again protest the illegal confiscation and cultivation of their agricultural land by Israeli settlers...

Read more

Seattle P-I: Palestinians’ lives invisible to Israelis

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Ramallah Region

By Edward Mast

On a visit to Tel Aviv last month, I asked some Israeli friends what people in Israel were saying about the Palestinian situation. Not much, they told me. Israelis are more concerned about the corruption charges against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, coming on the heels of corruption charges against previous governments....

Read more

(Updated) …Blocking the road to Apartheid: Palestinian nonviolent protestors are blocking highway 443

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Ramallah Region, Video, Photos

By: Apartheid Masked


For...

Read more


.