Elizabeth Murray, of Creative Voices for Non Violence, spent some time with the Freedom Flotilla boat Al-Awda, which has just two European ports of call left to make before sailing in hopes to break the horrendous siege of Gaza. All ships to date have been intercepted and boarded by the IDF, which in 2010 massacred … Read more
This morning, over thirty oncology specialists from Israeli hospitals called upon the Ministry of Health and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (CGAT) to allow women cancer patients form the Gaza Strip to travel for urgent and lifesaving treatments in hospitals in Israel and the West Bank. The signatories include ward directors and … Read more
Members of Kol Aher (Another Voice), an Israeli movement based in the town of Sderot and in smaller communities in the Gaza border area, held a demonstration Friday at the Yad Mordechai Junction, a short distance north of the border – where they have already held numerous demonstrations and protests on earlier occasions. Demonstrators made … Read more
After two years and a half in which the poet Dareen Tatour was held in prison and under house arrest for the “crime” of writing a poem and publishing it on the Internet, the verdict in her trial is to be announced. The verdict announcement session will be held tomorrow, Thursday May 3rd,at 11:00, in … Read more
Judges say defense minister’s decision to deny entry permits to 90participants in coexistence event ‘unreasonable’ and insensitive The High Court on Tuesday ordered Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to grant entry permits to Israel to 90 Palestinians who are slated to attend an Israeli-Palestinian memorial service in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening, saying his decision to … Read more
Even if Trump’s audiovisual show in the skies of Damascus somewhat overshadowed yesterday’s events on the Gaza border, it is important to emphasize what happened there (and what did not happen …). Yesterday it turned out that if the IDF really wants to, it could face for an entire day more than 10,000 unarmed demonstrators … Read more
The Human Rights group B’Tselem launched a campaign entitled “Sorry, Sir, I can’t shoot”. The campaign includes newspaper advertisements clarifying to soldiers that they must refuse to open fire on unarmed demonstrators. The organization is taking this unusual step following last Friday’s events, when soldiers used live fire against unarmed demonstrators. Of at least 17 … Read more
Fifty years after the first settlers began the process of dispossession of Palestinian land and homes under occupation in Hebron, we stand together to reaffirm the commitment to liberation in every generation and for all peoples. This will take place on April 4th at 17:30 at the Youth Against Settlements community center on Tel Rumeida … Read more
Last week Sivan Yehieli, mayor of the community of Kfar Vradim inthe Galilee, announced the cancellation of building constructiontenders – because 50% of the winners in the first tender were…Arabs. In a message to all inhabitants, he spoke in an openly racistway and declared himself in favor of “limiting the access of Arabsto the community”. … Read more
Report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Today, the Humanitarian Fund for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt HF) released approximately US $900,000 for health and food support over the next six months to around 140,000 Palestinians, almost half of them children, in dozens of West Bank communities, including in East Jerusalem. … Read more