Palestinian non-violent resistance prevents Israeli airstrike
A group of Palestinian civilians managed to thwart an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Wednesday by gathering on the roof of the targeted home in a non-violent act of civil…
Palestinian journalists demonstrate in support of all colleagues under attack
More than 200 Palestinian journalists held a sit-in and March in Ramallah Sunday afternoon in protest of attacks on members of the press. Among the subjects was the kidnapping of…
Palestinian nonviolent resistance stands up to continued Israeli land confiscation in Ein Mahal
Four thousand dunams of land remain in the village of Ein Mahel located near the city of Nazareth. Although Israeli forces have seized more than 13,000 dunums from the village…
Bil\’in village holds its weekly protest against the Wall
Officials and supporters of the Palestinian Fateh Party joined together with residents of Bil’in village near the northern West Bank city of Ramallah, as well as international and Israeli activists…
Leftist women’s nonviolent resistance for Eid Al Adha
All Palestinians participate in the resistance in some form or another, even if it means going to the market or refusing to leave their home under threat of demolition. Children…
Israeli activists against the Wall block downtown Tel Aviv
Israeli activists blocked central downtown of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv with razor wire from the illegal Wall on Thursday afternoon. The activists stretched the razor wire across Basel…
Army detains international volunteers in Hebron
Two international volunteers working with International Solidarity Movement teams in the West Bank city of Hebron were detained by the Israeli army for more than four hours on Wednesday afternoon.…
Palestinian nonviolent protest at checkpoint as Israeli soldiers beat student
On Wednesday Israeli forces occupying Al Hamra Checkpoint in Jenin confiscated the identity cards of hundreds of Palestinians, detaining them for five hours. While the soldiers were confiscating identification and…
Children hold a candle procession in Jabalia
Hundreds of Palestinian children held a candle procession in front of the Jabalia police station, in Jabalia town in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, against the Monday killing…
Non-violent march in Bil’in village met by Israeli military violence
In the weekly protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall, held today in the village of Bil'in, a group of villagers, internationals and Israelis gathered in the village after noon prayers…
Amnesty Secretary General visits Bil’in, observes weekly protest
Dozens of Palestinian residents, Israeli and International peace activists held their weekly protest in Bil'in village, West of Ramallah, against the Israeli Annexation Wall. Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty…
Right of Return art
The Palestinian Right of Return Coalition, through the Bethlehem Center for Citizenship Rights, is holdings its annual competition in the arts. The award is granted to “the most creative in…
Protesters in Bil’in demand access to the isolated orchards to plant them
Residents of Bil'in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists held the weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall and the…
Palestinian Students and Faculty Call for Academic Boycott
The Right to Education Student Committee at Birzeit University has recently published a press release to present their latest initiative. In response to the Irish call for academic boycott, the…
Students’ ‘Freedom Exhibition’ amplifies the voice of Jenin
The Youth Toward Freedom Initiative in coordination with the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign have launched a three day “Freedom Exhibition” at the American University in Jenin. The students group has built…
Palestinian mass resistance tactic blocks Israeli air strikes
Palestinians have started to employ new tactics to prevent Israeli air attacks on their houses. Hundreds of protesters successfully forced the Israeli air force to halt air strikes on a…
Breaking the silence: Israeli soldiers speak out
Standing at 6'1, with strong build, a full beard, and long dark hair, Yehuda Shaul seems like an unassuming young man. Wearing dark cargo pants, and a long-sleeved blue shirt,…
Bil’in protest commemorates Yasser Arafat; challenges international silence on Israeli atrocities
In the village of Bil'in today, more than a hundred people, including Palestinians, Israelis and internationals, held a nonviolent protest to challenge the Israeli Wall and attacks, as well as…
Nonviolent marches throughout Palestine condemn Israeli massacre of civilians in Beit Hanoun
In response to the Israeli military assault on the town of Beit Hanoun that left over 75 Palestinians dead in one week, including 18 civilians killed in an artillery strike…
Israeli forces attack protesters in Jerusalem and take prisoners
Israeli police and army officers attacked Palestinian protesters who were protesting peacefully Thursday morning against the massacre in Beit Hanoun, which killed 20 civilians Wednesday. The protest, organized by the…
Beit Hanoun: A People’s Will vs. an Army’s Arsenal
"The Israeli army soldiers are now blockading the mosque; while a number of resistance fighters are inside, where they have taken sanctuary for fear of being attacked. Dozens of women…
Seminar on Nonviolence in Amman
For the first time Arab activists and trainers of nonviolence meet to discuss establishing a network of Arab Network for Nonviolence. Trainers and activists from five Arab countries, Palestine,…
Army attack nonviolence protest in Al Khader village near Bethlehem city
Several non-violent protesters were severely beaten by Israeli military and border police today, as a demonstration was staged at the tunnel checkpoint on route 60. At three in the afternoon…
Creative Resistance: The Nassar Family’s ‘Tent of Nations’
Amid the olive trees and rocks, in the stone amphitheaters and shaded groves, young residents of Bethlehem’s refugee camps working alongside European volunteers presented “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare’s immortal drama…
Palestinians, internationals and Israelis hold peaceful march in Bil’in village
A small protest took place in Bil'in village Friday with approximately 15 Palestinians and 15 internationals and Israelis marching against the confiscation of land in Bil'in, and in support of…
Popular campaign to aid Tulkarem olive harvest navigating latest measures for new season
Farmers with orchards now located behind the Wall are facing a difficult olive harvest season. The Israeli government began building the Wall inside the West Bank several years ago, hitting…
Palestinian women hold nonviolent demonstration against Israeli Wall in rural Bethlehem
One hundred fifty Palestinian women gathered at the Grand Mosque in Al Khader, just to the southwest of Bethlehem City Sunday. The women farmers were from the rural development organization,…
Conference in Canada demanding boycott of Israel
Over 600 people attended the landmark conference, demanding boycott of Israel until it ends the occupation of Palestine. The conference, “Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: The Struggle Continues”, was held from 6-8…
Solidarity activists remove roadblocks near Hebron
Over the weekend, Israeli and international peace activists dismantled several roadblocks in the Hebron area that had been set up by the Israeli military, and had been acting as a…
Israeli Border Police arrest three peace activists for aiding Palestinian farmers
The Israeli Border Police arrested three international peace activists near Al Khader town, in Bethlehem area, after they arrived at the town to held Palestinian farmers in harvesting their orchards.…
Irish protesters challenge Israeli ambassador in Galway
Dr. Zion Evrony, the Israeli ambassador to Ireland was greeted with boos and hisses, shouted slogans and Palestinian flags as he began a speech at the Law School of the…
Druze refusenik rejects compulsory military service imposed on Druze youth
Since two month, Arabi Hamad Salalha, an Arab-Druze resident of Beit Dajan, in the Galilee, refuse to report to the recruitment office in Beit Dajan, and declared his refusal to…
Israeli court questions lack of investigation in Brian Avery case
Brian Avery, an American peace activist shot in the face by Israeli forces in 2003, has sought for a thorough investigation of his case since his injury, but the Israeli…
Troops attack peaceful anti-wall protesters in Bil’in
Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly peaceful protest against the Annexation Wall in Bil'in village, near Ramallah, in the northern part of the West Bank, and injured nine protesters after hitting…
Strike in Bethlehem in support of Government employees
A general strike was carried out in Bethlehem, Beit Sahour and Beit Jala, and all surrounding villages in support of government employees who continued their strike for the fourth day…
Strikes creating more uncertainty in Palestinian students’ already uncertain lives
Palestinians are so enmeshed in politics that it is akin to daily bread. The two are inseparable as there is no choice under occupation and now in the face of…
Teachers, employees resume their strike, demand to receive salaries
Palestinian teachers and employees resumed their general strike for the third day in protest to not receiving their full salaries sine march 2006. Ministries, schools and government officer are closed…
Detainees to conduct a hunger strike in protest to bad conditions
Palestinian political detainees in Salem Israeli prison are preparing to carry a hunger strike in protest of the difficult and harsh conditions they face in detention. The detainees held a…
Fourth National Child Conference starts in Bethlehem
Defense For Children International, (DCI) Palestine Branch, announced the opening of the four National Child conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The conference will focus on “Child Neglect,…
Israeli Army sprays protestors in Bil’in with unknown blue chemical
Friday’s protest in Bil’in village, which began after noon prayers, was conducted in the midst of a village sports tournament this week, that has been going on for the past…
Ecumenical, non-violent solidarity group organizes civilian convoy to South Lebanon
“We’ve been told the situation here is different from Palestine,” says Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. “In Palestine you have Israeli soldiers on the ground actively brutalizing…
Breakthrough At Al-Khader Demonstration
Protesters broke through the barrier Friday at the weekly demonstration in Al-Khader village. Internationals, Israelis, and local Palestinians from Al-Khader village gathered in two locations to protest the building of…
Bethlehem children hold nonviolent demonstration in support of Gaza and Lebanon
The Young Men’s Christian Association and the Ministry of Sport and Youth helped organize Monday’s event which condemned “the massacres being carried out by against the children, women and the…
Funeral for UN, Arab League and International Conscience in Palestine
Hundreds of Palestinian and International demonstrators took part in the symbolic funeral procession in the town of Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, Sunday. The event was organized to protest the silence…
Demonstration in Al-Khader Changes Course
The non-violent demonstration in Al-Khader village changed course Friday when Israeli soldiers erected a metal barrier encased in barbed wire. Heavily armed and protected by the barrier, the soldiers allowed…
One person injured in Bil’in protest against annexation wall
One person was injured Friday afternoon in Bil’in, west of Ramallah, after Israeli soldiers fired sound bombs and tear gas at demonstrators, Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Popular Committee…
Filmmakers bring Palestinian struggle to London
Three Palestinian filmmakers participated in a cultural evening in London sponsored by the Foundation of Southampton last Monday. The event showcased Palestinian film and addressed the many issues of the…
Arms shipment from United States to Israel forced to re-route flight due to protests
Two US cargo planes believed to be carrying bombs bound for Israel have failed to land for refuelling at a Scottish airport, where a protest was staged at the expected…
A new group against war in Lebanon established in Israel
“Waking up in time” is the name of a new movement established in Israel following the current war on Lebanon. The origin of the movement stems from the “Four Mothers”…
Israeli police arrest three anti-war protesters in Lod
Sunday evening. The Israeli police arrested three protesters marching against the war in Lebanon and Palestine during a protest in the northern city of Lod. The protest was organized by…
In Tel Aviv; 5000 Arab and Jewish peace activists protest Against the War
Saturday evening, at least 5000 Israeli and Arab residents of Israel marched from the Rabin Square to the Cinematheque plaza Tel Aviv against the war on Lebanon and Palestine and…
Bil’in peaceful protest commemorates victims of Israeli attacks in Palestine, Lebanon
In Bil’in village Palestinians, Israelis and internationals peacefully protest against Israeli attacks in Gaza, Lebanon Two-hundred-fifty Palestinian residents, 100 international supporters and 20 Israeli peace activists held a silent protest…
2320 Palestinian detainees in the Negev detention camp announced a 1-day hunger strike
Palestinian sources reported that approximately 2320 Palestinians imprisoned in the Israeli Negev detention facility announced on Friday morning a one day hunger strike in protest to the violations carried by…
Nonviolent resistance in Salem Prison as Palestinians threaten hunger strike
Israeli forces are preventing lawyers and family members to visit Palestinian political prisoners in the Salem Prison, west of Jenin in the northern West Bank. In response, the imprisoned people…
Hundred protest Wall in Al-Khader
Nearly a hundred Palestinians, Israelis, and international peace activists protested the impending construction of the Separation Wall in Al Khader, west of the city of Bethlehem, Friday in what has…
San Francisco Shout Out for Palestine
An American Human Rights group organized and sponsored a demonstration in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco Monday to protest the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian population in…
Army attacks a non-violent demonstration in Hebron, several protestors wounded
The Israeli army attacked a non-violent demonstration conducted by the residents of two towns near the West Bank city of Hebron. The peace activists were protesting the bulldozing of lands…
US-based Palestinian activists and supporters draft the Detroit Declaration
A Connecticut based Palestinian activist, Mazin Qumsiyeh, attended a meeting in Detroit out of which came a document entitled the “Detroit Declaration.” He sent it to PNN and the statement…
Palestinians, Israelis and internationals protest in Bil’in against the Israeli attacks in Gaza
Palestinian residents, Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly non-violent protest in Bil’in village, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, and protested against the Israeli military operations…
Israeli forces arrest non-violent anti-Wall organizers in late-night raids
Palestinians active in the non-violent struggle against the illegal Israeli Apartheid Wall were taken from their homes in the West Bank last night, according to a statement from the International…
Holy Land Trust program concludes in Jenin
Holy Land Trust, a non-profit organization based in Bethlehem, celebrated the conclusion of their training program entitled “The Role of Public Action in Conflict Resolution” Thursday in Jenin. The program…
American Peace activist denied entry to Palestine on Israeli border
Paul Larudee, an American nonviolent peace activist, has been denied entry to Palestine by the Israeli authorities and is being held in detention at Ben Gurion Airport, sources at the…
‘Birthright Israel’ program refuses admission to Jewish American who planned visit to Palestine
This week, the "birthright israel" program, which provides free ten-day trips to Israel for Jewish youth, is celebrating its 100,000th participant since the tour group’s founding. But Sierra, a 26-year-old…
International Boycott spreads
Responding to a Palestinian initiated global campaign, The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, recently overwhelmingly approved a resolution that will make them an active partner in the campaign…
Sweden labels Golan wines: ‘Made in occupied Syrian land’, Sweden Jews protest
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that Sweden has started to note that wines produced in the Golan Heights originate in "Israel, occupied Syrian land". Winery sources in Israel considered this…
Boycott Movement Grows. Canadian Union Votes for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Responding to a Palestinian initiated global campaign, The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, recently overwhelmingly approved a resolution that will make them an active partner in the campaign…
Boston groups protest the siege and starvation of the Palestinian population
The Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR), together with a dozen other Boston-area peace and justice organizations, will be holding a demonstration in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the group said in a…
Palestinian workers hold nonviolent demonstration against Israeli closure of Gaza Strip
Hundreds of Palestinian workers conducted a sit-in today at Erez Crossing, the crossing point from the northern Gaza Strip Beit Hanoun area into Israeli territory. It is the only route…
Palestinians protest siege with sit-in at checkpoint
Hundreds of Palestinian workers conducted a sit-in today at Erez Checkpoint, the crossing point from the northern Gaza Strip Beit Hanoun area into Israeli territory. It is the only route…
Arson in Bil’in village — Israeli settlers suspected
At 5pm on May 28, 2006, Palestinian workers from the nearby settlement of Modi’in Illit called Abdullah Abu Rahme, from Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements of Bil’in, to…
Audio Report from the West Bank – Bil’in
Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 18.2 MB This is a report on the history and current…
Jubara Villagers Challenge Occupation Order to Demolish their School
On Wednesday, Israeli Occupation forces delivered a military order to the Jubara village council to halt construction of a primary school, according to local sources. The school is being built…
Palestinians mark Nakba ‘catastrophe’ day
Palestinians have been marking the worst day in their history – the day of Israel’s creation – determined to lift damaging economic sanctions and warning that Israeli unilateralism could kill…
Two international peace activists shot Friday released from hospital
The two international peace activists who were both shot in their heads by the Israeli military at Friday’s anti-wall demonstration in Bil’in have been discharged from hospital, according to a…
Australian, Danish peace activists in hospital after being shot in head by Israeli soldiers at demo
An Australian man and a Danish man are both being treated in an Israeli hospital after being shot in the head by rubber bullets at close range during a protest…
Two internationals severely injured by Israeli forces in weekly anti-wall protest in Bil’in
Hundreds of Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, protested along with dozens of Israeli and international peace activists, and members of the Palestinian Legislative…
Palestinian official visits Palestinian activists on hunger strike over western blockade
Palestinian prisoners’ affairs minister, Wasfi Qabaha, paid a visit Wednesday to several prominent Palestinians who are in their second week of a hunger strike protesting the unjust western blockade on…
Christian and Samaritan figures in Palestine denounce the siege, violations
Palestinian Christian and Samaritan figures appealed the International Community and Human Rights organizations to interfere in order to lift the Israeli unjust siege, and the isolation of the Palestinian people…
Parents of detainees protest in Bethlehem
In cooperation with the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) in Bethlehem, the Committee of Parents of Detainees in the city organized, on Saturday, a protest in front of the Red Cross…
Hamas and Fateh school teachers collect monthly funds for the unpaid
In a pioneering move to triumph over the economic blockade, the Ibn Qabatia School in Nablus has created a cooperative borrowing fund to assist those in need during this period…
Jenin on hunger strike in nonviolent protest against the `“starvation of children and residents
Dozens more Palestinians join nonviolent protest, hunger striking against “starvation of children and the Palestinian nation, as the US-led economic blockade continues against Palestinians after the elected the Hamas party…
Palestinian activists begin Hunger Strike to protest Israeli Policy of Starvation
On Thursday, two prominent Palestinian citizens started an open-ended hunger strike to protest the dire economic situation created by the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, and the ‘collective punishment’ of…
Jab’a Villagers Hold Peaceful March Demanding Right to Farm Land
On the morning of Monday, April 17, Jab’a villagers held a march demanding the right to farm their land, along with Palestinians from nearby villages, and international and Israeli activists…
Non-violent protest in Bil’in challenges siege, isolation and annexation Wall
Friday afternoon, Approximately 400 protesters, including 70 Israeli and international peace activists marched in Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, against the Israeli annexation Wall and the…
Budrus village, central in Palestinian non-violence, subjected to night raids by Israeli forces
Israeli Forces have been carrying out late-night raids into the village of Budrus and forcing people at gunpoint to undergo fingerprint checks. Soldiers have stormed several houses over the last…
Hundreds march to Manger Square to launch Palestine Child Week
On Wednesday, hundreds of youth gathered at Bethlehem University to participate in a march to launch Palestine Child Week. The march wound its way through the narrow streets of Bethlehem’s…
Palestinians and Israelis ‘drum through the wall’
This weekend, a group of Palestinians and Israelis gathered in Abu Dis to “break the sound barrier by drumming through the wall”. As the sun set on Saturday, close to…
Palestinians and Israelis ‘drum through the wall’
This weekend, a group of Palestinians and Israelis gathered in Abu Dis to “break the sound barrier by drumming through the wall”. As the sun set on Saturday, close to…
Residents, peace activists and international diplomats conduct march to Wall in Bil’in
The Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, invited diplomats from several European representatives offices in the Palestinian areas to participate in an activity regarding the…
Nonviolent Actions in Palestine and Israel on Land Day
Palestinians living in are planning number of activities to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Land Day. On this day, Palestinian residents of who protested ‘s land confiscation policy in 1976,…
Residents of Beit Ummar village reclaim land confiscated by Israel for the Wall
Yesterday, dozens of people from Beit Ummar village in northern Hebron faced off with Israeli soldiers in a non-violent demonstration on their own land which is being confiscated for the…
Vigils around the world commemorate third anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s murder
American citizen and peace activist Rachel Corrie was run down by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to protect the home of a Palestinian doctor on March 16, 2003. On the…
Nonviolent demonstrators ‘hang themselves in effigy’ on Separation Wall in Bil’in
At this week’s anti-Wall protest in the Palestinian village of Bil’in Friday, Palestinian and Israeli activists ‘hung’ themselves in mock nooses from the Wall to symbolize the ‘death sentence’ wrought…
Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?
During a recent lecture at the University of Oregon, Yuval Rabin, son of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was asked if he believed that a Palestinian leader would…
New York Theater pulls play about Gaza activist; Oscar-nominated film also challenged
In the face of increasing anti-Palestinian sentiment in the United States after the Hamas party’s victory in January’s elections, artists portraying the conflict to American audiences are finding themselves facing…
Two peaceful protesters wounded, one seriously, at anti-Wall protest Sunday
Following a weekend of peaceful anti-Wall protests, a protest Sunday in the village of Anta, north of Jerusalem, was marred by Israeli police violence against demonstrators which resulted in two…
At least 10 non-violent protesters injured, one critically, by Israeli forces at anti-Wall protests
Seven Palestinians and an Israeli supporter were injured today by Israeli forces that opened fire on a nonviolent demonstration against the Wall in Beit Sira Village, west of Ramallah. Several…
Hundreds of resident protest in Al Aqsa mosque
On Friday afternoon, hundreds of Palestinian residents protested in the main yard of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, against the controversial cartoon printed in a Danish newspaper two weeks…
Residents of Bil’in village and peace activists protest against the Wall
Friday afternoon, residents of Bil’in along with dozens of Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly protest against the Separation Wall, and protested against the perceived insult to Islam…
Israeli Group calls the wall land robbery, calls for protest in Bil’in
As the session of the Israeli Supreme Court regarding the construction of the wall on the land of the West Bank village of Bil’in near Ramallah nears, the villagers continue…