UN spurns Palestinian children
June 2015 | Hemaya Center for Human Rights | Gaza, Occupied Palestine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UN spurns Palestinian children Ban Ki-moon’s decision not to include Israel on the list of violators of children’s rights twists the knife in the heart of every Palestinian parent, making it very clear that in the eyes of […]
Mental disability on the rise under the Israeli siege
June | Miguel Hernández | Gaza, Occupied Palestine The number of mentally disabled people in the Gaza Strip has increased substantially in the last years. It so happens that 70% of the cases come from the communities located near the fence that separates Gaza from the territories occupied in 1948. Such data is surprising, as most of […]
Protesters shot in clashes at Ofer
5th June 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al Khalil Team | Al Khalil, Occupied Palestine On the 5th of May, clashes between Israeli occupation forces and young Palestinians, took place in the Palestinian village, Ofer, located just south of Ramallah. Between 3:30 pm. and 8 pm. the area bordering up to the incarceration facility, Ofer Penitentiary was heavily tear […]
Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (28 May- 03 June 2015)
Jerusalem – Family of Nidal Abu Rmaila stands on the rubble of their house that was demolished by Jerusalem municipality bulldozers in al-Maghariba gate area under the pretext of non-licensing. Photo by: Mahmoud Elayan Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) (28 May – 03 June 2015) A Palestinian […]
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE WIDELY: TELL CONNECTICUT STATE’S ATTORNEY: DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST ANTI-APARTHEID PROTESTERS DANIEL FISCHER AND GREGORY WILLIAMS
Jun 6, 2015 — PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE WIDELY TELL CONNECTICUT STATE’S ATTORNEY: DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST ANTI-APARTHEID PROTESTERS DANIEL FISCHER AND GREGORY WILLIAMS Sign here: http://tinyurl.com/JusticeforFischerWilliams Call State Attorney’s office at: 203-965-5215. On May 12, 2015, two Jewish anti-apartheid activists, Daniel Fischer and Gregory Williams, entered a fundraiser for the Israeli military at Temple Israel […]
Israeli Naval Forces Wound Two Fishers and Arrest Five Others, including Child in Gaza Sea
On Tuesday, 02 June 2015, Israeli naval gunboats chased and opened fire at a Palestinian fishing boat sailing off northern Gaza shore wounding two fishers. On Monday morning, 01 June 2015, Israeli naval forces also arrested five Palestinian fishers, including a child, while fishing off Gaza shore. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns […]
Israeli forces break the arm of a Palestinian man at peaceful protest, Beit Ummar
International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Beit Ummar, Occupied Palestine Today in Beit Ummar, just north of Al Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces broke the arm of local activist Yousif Abu Maria, and then arrested him. Yousif was protesting with a group of around 30 local Palestinian activists outside an illegal Israeli settlement.
Settlers set Palestinian home on fire
May 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al Khalil Team | Al Khalil, Occupied Palestine Around 12 PM Saturday night the 30th/31st of May, Imad Abu Shamsiyeh woke up to the sound of stones being thrown at his home, in Tel Rumeida, Al Khalil (Hebron). This is not at all out of the ordinary for the Abu Shamsiyeh family – […]
Surviving in Gaza’s caravan houses
27th May | Miguel Hernández | Gaza, Occupied Palestine The family El Najjar was expelled during the Nakba from the Palestinian village of Salamah. This village was the subject of a total ethnic cleansing by the Zionist colonizers. Nowadays just ten houses remain from the almost 2000 that formed the village. In its place today we can […]
Another violent attack on Palestinian family
May 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al Khalil Team | Al Khalil, Occupied Palestine On the 23rd May, settlers in Al Khalil (Hebron) blocked the entrance to Hashem Younes Azzeh’s house and attacked his family. Large rocks were thrown at them and his daughter was hit in the hand. Hashem lives with his wife and four children in Tel […]