photo gallery About a thousand demonstrators – half of them Israelis, half Palestinians – converged on Saturday morning on the East Jerusalem neighborhoodSawahra, where a section of the “separation wall” is going to be built. It will cut tens of thousands of Palestinian off from the world – from schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, workplaces – … Read more
photo gallery On Saturday, 26 October, we held the first joint Israeli-Palestinian-Internationaldemonstration. The demonstration was held in Kalquilia, on both sides of the separation wall. One group of Palestinians and internationals was on a roof of a school (see enlarged section of photo), while another group demonstrated on the other side of thewall, at a … Read more
photo gallery In the framework of the “Olive Picking Coalition”,Gush Shalom activists took part (together with activists of Ta’ayush,the Women’s Coalition and the Committee against House Demolitions in a massive action ofpicking the olives of Hirbet Jabara village.360 activists came in seven buses and privare cars from all over the country.The work went on at … Read more
photo gallery On Friday, 27 th. september, Gush Shalom held a demonstrationin front of the Kalandia “check-point”alongside the leaders of the Arab public in Israel -demanding the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Mukata’a.the demonstration also acknowledged, again,that Arafat is the elected, legitimate leader of the Palestinian people.Surprisingly, the demonstration was peaceful and the … Read more
photo gallery Today, 22/09, Gush Shalom held the first demonstrationin support of the 27 pilots who refuse to take part in attacksin the occupied territories.60 activists spread huge signs declaring:”refusing to be war criminals”, as well as “The best pilots” etc.A group of Spanish musicians joined the demonstrastion with revolutionary songsagainst the dictatorship.The demonstration was … Read more
photo gallery Last Saturday, 04/09/03, immediately after the suicide-bombing in Haifa,the Gush went into action to organize an Israeli human shield for the Mukata’ah,in view of the strong suspicion that Sharon would exploit the terrible atrocity as a pretext tokill Yasser Arafat. Eight activists, mostly Gush members,went within the hour to Ramallah.There they met about … Read more
photo gallery “Targetted Killing causes Suicide Bombing, Suicide Bombing causes Targetted Killing! Break the Bloody Cycle!”Under these slogans, 75 Gush Shalom activists held today a vigil opposite the Ministry of Defence in Tel-Aviv.The main objective was to protest against the almost daily assassinations of Palestinian militants by the Israeli army, mainly by attack helicopters.The so-called … Read more
20 Gush Shalom activists demonstrated today Monday, July 14,in the Tel-Aviv courtroom against the trial of Marwan Barghouti,the chief of the Fatah organization on the Wrest Bank.At the beginning of the session, the activists hoisted posters saying”Barghouti – don’t imprison him, talk peace with him!”They were immediately attacked by a large number of guards who … Read more
photo gallery “First of all – the wall must fall!”shouted the peace activists at a demonstration against the Apartheid Wallthat was called jointly by the public organization of Qalqilya and Gush Shalom. The Israeli peace activists demonstrated on the Israeli side with posters that said”The wall – a ghetto for Israelis, a prison for Palestinians”and … Read more
A delegation of 21 Gush Shalom activists succeeded today (Saturday) to deliver 15 tons offlour to two Palestinian villages in the Nablus area. The flour was donated by private donors(at 75 NIS per sack) in Israel and abroad. The occupation army tried to prevent the delivery and stopped the activists at the Tapuakhcheckpoint south of … Read more