Human Rights Defender Manal Tamimi Talks about Her Arrest on International Women’s Day “I asked to say goodbye to my children. My daughter was crying all the time. Samer (10) was in shock. He didn’t say anything. The room was full of around ten soldiers and all of them have guns and they cover their…
On Tuesday, 8 March, International Women’s Day, at 1:30am, fully armed Israeli soldiers raided the home of Manal and Bilal Tamimi in the village of Nabi Saleh. The soldiers arrested Manal in front of her frightened children, the youngest of which is 10 years old. Manal was then taken to an interrogation which was held…
The incident documented here is highly typical of the way the Israeli army treats journalists, especially Palestinian one: soldiers disrupt the journalists’ work in the field, as the latter attempt to document military violence. Then the local commander declares the area a “closed military zone” and arrests a Palestinian journalist for merely being there. This…
The Hebron Defense committee organized a protest at the old city of Hebron, close to the market and Shuhadaa street, to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre and call to end the Israeli settlement project in the city. In 1994, an Israeli settler by the name if Barukh Goldstein entered the Ibrahimi…
Palestinians marched on Friday towards their confiscated lands, chanting against the ongoing Israeli occupation. The IDF responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. A group of soldiers also ambushed the protesters, and while other soldiers diverted the attention of the villagers, this group began to chase after protesters in an attempt to arrest them. One…
With the news of the release of Muhammad ‘Alan from administrative detention, Palestinian residents of Nabi Saleh, accompanied by solidarity activists, marched demanding the release of all political prisoners. ‘Alan was on hunger strike for over two months, until the Israeli Supreme Court decided to temporarily lift his administrative detention order until his medical condition…
Hundreds of activists arrived to Ashkelon from all over the country, to stand in solidarity with Muhammad ‘Alan, a Palestinian attorney in administrative detention, which has been on a hunger strike for two months. The Israeli police blocked the entrance to the city, forcing protesters to descend the buses and hold a demonstration there, bringing…
Jaffa based activists staged a protest against the escalating violence towards Palestinians that claimed the life of Ali Dawabsheh, a year and a half, from the village of Douma and severely injured his parents and brother. On the dawn of Friday, the family house was set slight in suspected settlers led arson. In the demonstrations…
The annual Zionist “Jerusalem Day” is a celebration of the occupation of the eastern neighbourhoods of the city during the June 1967 war. Many thousands of settlers flooded the city, carrying Israeli flags, set to march to the Wailing Wall through Damascus Gate and the Muslim Quarter. Although activists and NGOs have warned the state…
Hundreds commemorated Land Day in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, in protest of ongoing land annexations, settlements and military occupation. Among the hundreds who attended the march were delegates from several local popular committees such as Ni’lin Bil’in, Kufr Qaddum and Hebron based Youth against Settlements. Many international and Israeli solidarity activists also…
