Category: Non-violent action

Israeli activists from Combatants for Peace joined Palestinian landowners in Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, after Israeli colonizers from the nearby Yatziv outpost invaded their land. About 70 Israeli and…

By Rifat Kassis: A Preliminary Reading of the Background to the Campaign Against the Church of England’s Decision. The Church of England’s General Synod decision in July 2026—calling on the…

Palestinians marked the 78th anniversary of the Nakba on Tuesday with a central march and public gathering in Ramallah at 11:30 a.m., as part of nationwide events held under the…

Israel is set to revoke the Norwegian Refugee Council’s registration within 16 days, part of a broader move that has already stripped dozens of aid groups of their licences under…

On February 6, workers from over 20 Mediterranean ports, led by the USB union in Italy and groups in Greece, Turkey, Morocco, and Spain, staged strikes to block vessels including…

All but one of the British ‘Palestine Action’ prisoners ended their hunger strike, including Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed after 73 and 66 days, following achievement of some of their…

The ‘Filton 24’ have passed day 40 of their ongoing hunger strike – marking the largest, longest hunger strike of prisoners in the UK since Bobby Sands died in a…

Seven members of Palestine Action in Britain have been on hunger strike for over 30 days, with their lives now at risk, demanding bail, fair trials, repeal of counter-terror laws…

Another humanitarian aid flotilla of ships trying to bring desperately-needed humanitarian aid to the starving population of Gaza has been intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters, an estimated…

The Sumud (Steadfast) Flotilla is less than 200 km away from the coast of Gaza, in the largest-ever civilian-led humanitarian aid effort by sea. The 50 boats and hundreds of…

In a powerful show of global solidarity, organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla announced the launch of a civilian-led mission to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza and confront the silence…

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the broadest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement, today officially endorsed the grassroots organic campaign to boycott ZARA. A statement by the organization proclaimed,…

The Israeli occupation forces attacked the “Handala” ship, which was carrying international activists and desperately needed humanitarian aid, on its way to the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to break…

More than 100 international humanitarian organizations called on governments around the world to take immediate action to open all land crossings with the Gaza Strip, restore the full flow of…

Dozens of protests were held worldwide on Saturday and throughout the week — many of them targeting the companies profiting from and manufacturing weapons for the ongoing Israeli genocide in…

The UN Special Rapporteur has published a new report on the economics of occupation, and how the companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine are now increasing their…

The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee has passed a resolution calling for an end to the Israeli apartheid system imposed on the indigenous Palestinian population in Israel, the…

As the people of Gaza face the 21st month of daily bombing, shelling, starvation and siege by Israeli forces, hundreds of thousands of people in cities around the world held…

From Quds News: In a bold move to challenge Israel’s suffocating blockade on Gaza, tens of thousands of participants from around the world are preparing to join the “March of…

As the boat ‘Madleen’ approaches the Gaza Strip with 12 human rights activists and several tons of humanitarian aid, the Israeli navy has blocked the communication channels of the boat…

A group of European activists sailing to Gaza to bring humanitarian aid to the starving Palestinian population encountered a sinking boat of Libyan migrants, and rescued the migrants from drowning.…

On May 15th and the days following, protests and events took place around the world to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe), marking the day in 1948…

On Wednesday, Jewish students at Columbia University in New York having chained themselves to the university gates in protest against the detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. Meanwhile, at Harvard…

Legal Actions and Legislation Limiting Pro-Palestinian Speech Significant actions include Anti-Boycott Laws in 37 states penalizing boycotts of Israel, federal bills introduced to restrict pro-Palestinian groups, and widespread legislative attempts…

The images of the past year are seared into my memory. The worst one I remember was the image of what was left of a body that got completely smashed…

Palestinian Civil Society has joined the Turkish and British governments in their calls for an independent investigation of Israel’s killing of an American peace worker in the West Bank this…

As a new school year opens around the world, the children and teens of Gaza remain without their right to education, as schools in the Gaza Strip remain closed for…

During the weekly demonstration in Beita, Palestine, on the morning of September 6th, 2024, the Israeli army intentionally shot and killed an International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Turkish-American human rights activist…

Three nonviolent activists, including a French journalist and a member of the Israeli Knesset, were injured, Thursday evening, in an attack by Israeli colonizers on a peaceful procession against the…

So… #Gaza is still trending on social media, as the genocide enters its 220th day. And maybe it’s the cynic in me, or I’ve been through this cycle too many…

from mondoweiss.net As Israel presses on its persecution of civilians in Gaza, the good news is that a strong movement has emerged in the United States against the genocide, and this movement is…

The following are updates from international human rights observers from the US and Europe who are in the West Bank right now: Content warning: torture 5/4/24 We’ve done a few…

Dozens of Israelis, including some refuseniks, who have refused to serve in the Israeli military, as well as former Israeli soldiers who expressed regret at having taken part in the…

The sun’s rays are burning in Palestine. My name is Shams [Sunshine]. I am 56 years old. I work as the director of an integrated kindergarten with disabled children. I…

An active duty US soldier on Sunday set himself on fire as an act of protest against the US and Israeli war against the Palestinian people. According to the Atlanta…

Israeli conscientious objector Sophia Orr, was detained by Israeli authorities on Sunday after burning the draft order requiring her to join the Israeli military. She told the recruitment bureau in…

On Monday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague began hearing a genocide case on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. According to Middle East Eye, “separate to…

A week after a shipload of killer drones made by factory workers in India were shipped from a port in India headed to Israel to bomb civilians in Gaza, a…

Israeli is a microcosm of the USA. It’s like a little miniature version of the settler-colonial state that took over the entirety of turtle island from “sea to shining sea”…

Another massive Palestine solidarity protest was held in London on Saturday. The rally began at the headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, which protesters say has failed to report…

100 days. and I feel numb. It started, this time, with something unusual. Something unheard of. We have become used, over the past 24 years of intifada suppression, to the…

An estimated 400,000 people gathered in Washington DC Saturday afternoon, traveling from all over the East Coast and Midwest to attend the rally and march for Palestine. It was the…

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators closed three vital bridges and a tunnel linking Manhattan to the rest of New York and its surrounding areas on Monday, in a coordinated move to…

by: Yousef al-Jamal It is hard to write about Refaat Alareer, the person who instilled in me and so many other young people in Gaza, the love of the written…

In London on Saturday, one million people came out in support of a Free Palestine. This is the largest march the UK has ever had in support of Palestinian liberation,…

Israeli forces shot at least thirty-seven Palestinians, killing two children during a number of protests and confrontations in the Jenin, Qalqilia, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron governorates, throughout the occupied…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, non-violent Palestinian demonstrators in the village of Beit Dajan, assaulted the mayor and injured at least three others, local sources reported. Palestinians gathered on village…

Heavily armed Israeli soldiers injured, on Friday, dozens of Palestinian civilians who participated in the weekly anti-settlement procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia, in the northwestern part of…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday evening, a peaceful sit-in against Israel’s policy of forced eviction, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, local sources reported. Participants demonstrated non-violently,…

Palestinians and solidarity activists gathered, on Friday, to demonstrate against the proposed expropriation of Palestinian-owned land in the town of Deir Istiya, west of the central occupied West Bank city…

Israeli forces injured, on Friday, several Palestinian civilians, at the weekly procession against Israeli colonization in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern part of the occupied West…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked nonviolent protesters on lands in Deir Istiya town, west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank’s central part. The Palestinians held Friday prayers near lands…

Dozens of Palestinian civilians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Rummana, west of Jenin. In response to this…

Israeli forces injured, on Friday, a number of Palestinians at the weekly procession in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia in the northern occupied West Bank, local sources…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, the weekly anti-settlement demonstration in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to medical sources. National factions called for citizens…

Israeli forces shot three Palestinians, on Friday, during the weekly procession in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia in the northern occupied West Bank, local sources reported. Hundreds…

Israeli forces injured, on Friday evening, four Palestinian young men, one of whom suffered a serious gunshot wound, in the Al-Aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron in the southern occupied…

  Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Friday three Palestinians, including a child with rubber-coated steel rounds during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia in the…

  Israeli occupation soldiers attacked, on Friday, the weekly non-violent protest in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank, injuring at least 40. During the peaceful…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, wounding at least six Palestinians. Media sources said the…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent procession against the illegal colonialist activities in Beit Dajan town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, causing several injuries.…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured eight Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said…

Palestinian Prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons continued for the 27th day their steps of unified disobedience to the rules of the Israeli prison authorities, as a non-violent method of…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent procession near the Tayasir military roadblock east of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank. The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, the…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured several Palestinians during the weekly procession against the illegal colonies in Beit Dajan, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Palestinian Red…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured two young Palestinian men and an international solidarity activist during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia.…

A young man was wounded by live bullets in the foot in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, when Israeli troops attacked protesters gathered for the weekly march to protest the…

On Friday, Israeli troops invaded several parts of the West Bank, and killed a young man at the Huwwara military roadblock, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the…

Israeli forces fired both live ammunition and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters on Sunday, wounding a 13-year old child and a 22-year old man in Nabi Saleh, According to…

Israeli forces attacked the weekly non-violent protest in Al-Khader village, near Bethlehem, wounding three young Palestinian protesters with rubber-coated steel bullets. In addition, dozens of protesters suffered from the effects…

Derry City, Ireland.  December 31, 2022: for IMEMC NEWS, Niall Ó Brolcháin:  Vigils were held across Ireland on New Year’s Eve to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the Israeli ‘Operation…

Derry City, Ireland. November 29, 2022: for IMEMC NEWS, Niall Ó Brolcháin: A large crowd was in attendance on Tuesday, November 29 at Guildhall Square, Derry, Ireland, for a vigil…

Israeli soldiers invaded the Aida Refugee Camp, near Bethlehem, on Friday and shot a 14-year-old child with live ammunition. The invasion came in the midst of a flurry of protests…

In the small village of Taybeh, located in the Nazareth district, dozens of local villagers marched, held signs, and chanted slogans to demand that Israeli authorities end their practice of…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent procession against the escalating Israeli violations and attacks by the Israeli occupation soldiers and the colonizers against the Palestinians, and the confiscation of…

On Friday, Illegal Israeli colonizers attacked a nonviolent procession and assaulted a young Palestinian man in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem. In addition, Israeli soldiers abducted a Palestinian in…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured dozens of Palestinians, including seventeen who were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured dozens of Palestinians during a nonviolent procession against the ongoing Israeli violations and the illegal takeover of Palestinian lands in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron,…

Israeli troops attacked the weekly non-violent protest in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, in the central West Bank, wounding four young Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets. Dozens more suffered from…

On Friday afternoon, Israeli troops attacked non-violent Palestinian-led peace marches in 4 separate villages in the Nablus area, in the northern West bank, wounding 28 civilians with both live and…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. Morad Eshteiwi, the media coordinator in Qalqilia, said the Palestinian…

RAMALLAH, May 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Hundreds of Palestinians marked today the 74th anniversary of the Nakba of 1948 when nearly 600,000 indigenous Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes…

Israeli troops attacked Palestinian student protesters at Al Quds University in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, on Saturday. Dozens of students were treated for tear gas inhalation. The soldiers did…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, causing dozens of injuries. Morad Eshteiwi, the media spokesperson of…

On Friday, hundreds of Palestinians held a nonviolent procession near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, in solidarity with a political prisoner who began a hunger…

Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians in Sbeih Mountain in Beit Dajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Palestinians held the weekly procession against Israel’s illegal…

Derry, Ireland, March 30, 2022: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin: Several events have taken place in Derry, Ireland to show solidarity between Ireland and Palestine. The Palestinian Return Centre,…

Israeli soldiers opened fire with tear gas canisters toward the Palestinian protestors, injuring dozens of protestors in the northern West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, Quds Press…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 24, 2022(WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons announced today cancelling a major open-ended hunger strike that was scheduled to begin tomorrow, Friday, in protest…

On Friday afternoon, Israeli forces invaded several towns in the West Bank to attack non-violent protest marches organized by Palestinian peace groups in Battir (west of Bethlehem), Hebron, and Kufur…

March 11, 2022: Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI): These trips serve to present Israel in a positive light, whitewashing its regime of military occupation,…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Update Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Three Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed while the fourth succumbed to…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured more than eighty Palestinians, including two medics, and caused damage to an ambulance during the weekly processions on Sbeih Mountain in Beita town, in addition…

Israeli forces attacked, on Tuesday, Palestinians participating in a non-violent protest in the Bab al-Zawiya area, in the center of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, injuring a journalist…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, anti-settlement demonstrations in Beita, Beit Dajan and Qaryout near Nablus city, in the northern occupied West Bank, injuring eleven protestors, the Palestinian News & Information…