Month: February 2008

Boycott Committee – After 60 years of dispossession and ethnic cleansing, a “Palestinian Appeal to International Civil Society” is being issued as the memorial of Al Nakba, the Catastrophe, is upon us. How can you celebrate?  The […]

The occupied Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip survive the harsh conditions and severe limitations on movement because of the humanitarian aid disbursed by the international community.  Israel relies on this assistance, because […]

NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Aqsa foundation for the reconstruction of Islamic holy shrines strongly denounced Sunday the Jewish fanatics who assaulted the Islamic Hirbij cemetery in the Ibten town in the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948 […]

The Nafha Society stated that 200 residents were kidnapped in the West Bank and 100 in the Gaza Strip. It also said that the 32 kidnapped children were transferred to interrogation and detention centers in […]

Ma’an’s reporter stated that the Israeli forces have re-erected a military checkpoint near the Yitzar junction five kilometers south of the notorious Huwwara checkpoint at the southern entrance of Nablus. According to eyewitnesses, the Israeli […]

An Israeli decision to re-route fuel deliveries to the West Bank city of Bethlehem through a checkpoint far to the south of the city is raising concerns that Israel plans to complete a plan to […]

Divestment is a non-violent strategy that was utilized worldwide during the anti-apartheid campaigns against the white South African apartheid regime during the 1980s. In recent years, peace activists and human rights advocates worldwide have used […]

NABLUS, (PIC)– A Palestinian human rights advocate was subjected to torture in the Israeli detention center of Petah Tikwa that included sleep deprivation and forcing her to sit in an awkward position for three consecutive […]

B’Tselem (Israeli human rights group) slams Israeli killing of mentally disabled JENIN, West Bank – A human rights group called for an investigation into the death Thursday of a mentally disabled Palestinian man who had […]