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On Thursday the Palestine Solidarity Project released information about yesterday’s events in Um Salamoneh village. The Palestinian village stands to lose 700 dunams of vital farmland to the construction of…
Several army bulldozers resumed on Wednesday morning, destroying farm lands that is privately owned by Palestinian farmers from the village of Um Salamunah near the southern West Bank city of…
Two Palestinian civilians were injured, and two were taken prisoner, during Tuesday clashes between farmers and residents of Um Salmouna village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The clashes…
On Friday the village of Bil'in, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, celebrated the second anniversary of the civil non-violent resistance of the illegal Israeli wall and settlements being…
Siraj Center for Holy Land Studies have launched their Palestine Summer Celebration; a program through which Internationals can learn Arabic, Palestinian History and volunteer at Palestinian civil society organizations.Michael Awad,…
Jonathan Pollak, an activist with the ‘Anarchists Against the Wall’ group was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment on Sunday afternoon, which will be implemented if he is convicted of a…
On Friday, 300 protestors from the village of Bilin, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, joined with Israeli and international supporters. They marched in the weekly protest in…
Hundreds of Palestinian civilians, members of the People’s Committee to Break the Siege and non-governmental organizations held on Wednesday a massive non-violent protest in Nablus against the Israeli occupation, roadblocks,…
On Friday, Palestinian villagers along with international and Israeli peace activists marched in the weekly protest in Bilin village near the West Bank city of Ramallah. A total of 300…
On Saturday dozens of international volunteers assisted farmers in the southern West Bank village of Al Khader, near Bethlehem, with the planting of some 200 olive trees on their endangered…
The focus of today 's weekly demonstration against the illegal Israeli Wall in Bilin, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, was the need to end the internal conflict…
Religious leaders staged sit-ins Sunday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in protest of the Fateh – Hamas fighting. Chief Palestinian Justice Sheikh Taysir Tamimi issued the call to…
On Friday Palestinian villagers from Bilin village near the central west bank city of Ramallah along with international and Israeli peace activists conducted the weekly non-violent demonstration against the wall…
In the second action of the 'Thirty Days Against Checkpoints' campaign a youth band will perform the popular Russian folk song 'Katyusha' at Huwwara checkpoint on Wednesday 24th of January…
Scores of international peace activists protested on Saturday against the wall Israel is building in the West Bank City of Hebron. Scores of international peace activists protested on Saturday against…
Friday's weekly peaceful demonstration against the illegal Wall in Bilin village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah saw excessive Israeli army violence, seven injuries, and the abduction…
At least 1500 Palestinian and international peace activists gathered in Um Salamonah village near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday to protest the construction of the illegal…
Next Friday (Jan 19th), Palestinian, Israeli and International activists will form a convoy of cars and travel in an act of protest against the new Apartheid decree which prohibits Israelis…
Ali Issa, 38, a farmer from the village of Um Salamoneh, located south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, was injured on Friday morning when a group of villagers…
Some 100 Palestinian residents, peace activists held a peaceful protest at Huwwara checkpoint near Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank, dressing like Native Americans to send a…
Since dawn on Sunday, approximately 11,000 political prisoners in Israeli jails have been on a hunger strike that will last through the evening today in protest and condemnation of the…
Approximately 150 Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators, accompanied by several journalists, participated in a demonstration at midday on Friday against the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall in Bilin village near the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 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…
"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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
“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”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…