This fall, Palestinian farmers need your support. September is here and as the annual olive harvest approaches, the olives, green, purple, and black, are growing plump and ripening, in the occupied West Bank. “Of course, those olives are on the trees that have not been chopped down, burned, or poisoned by settlers,” said Zakaria Sadah,…
The Palestinian Authority (PA) sent on Sunday, August 20, three truckloads of medical supplies to Venezuela, following instructions from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Riad al-Malki told the Ma’an News Agency that the truckloads of medicine were dispatched on Sunday from warehouses in the northern occupied West Bank district…
Next Saturday, August 19, a demonstration will be held outside of Military Prison 6 near Atlit, in solidarity with two occupation refusers, Noa Gur-Golan and Hadas Tal. Gur Golan is in prison for the second time, so far for 44 days, and Tal received her first sentence of 20 days – for their refusal to…
An theatre workshop open to the general public will be held this evening, Saturday, May 13, at the Holot Detention Center in the Negev from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. “Holot Theatre – Generation 2.0” is joint project of Liat Shabtai, Rotem Goldenberg and Awet Asheber. Actors and creative partners under the guidance of Chen…
Joint List Chairman MK Ayman Odeh undertook a day-long fast on Thursday, May 11, in solidarity with the hunger striking Palestinian prisoners. From inside the a protest tent set up in Nazareth, Odeh said: “I joined the strike in identification with the struggle of the political prisoners in order to help increase awareness in the…
The hunger strike launched by more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners and detainees on April 17 is a non-violent protest focusing on several valid, basic demands for improved prison conditions. Because the Palestinian inmates are held in facilities in Israel, in contravention of international law, Israel imposes severe restrictions on family visits, and many relatives…
A crowd of thousands, Arabs and Jews, gathered in Nazareth on Saturday morning, April 29, to take part in the city’s annual May Day march. As well as marking International Workers’ Day, the demonstrators marched against the occupation and the government’s repression of Palestinians and the neo-liberal social and economic policies of Netanyahu’s far-right government.…
Palestinian workers entering Israel through the Eyal Checkpoint on Thursday morning, April 27, probably hadn’t expected to be handed flowers by members of the Knesset. But that’s exactly what happened at 5am on Thursday morning at one of the busiest checkpoints for Palestinian laborers from the occupied territories who cross into Israel each morning for…
Towards this year’s May Day, the International Workers’ Solidarity day, several rallies will be held across Israel, in Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Kufr Yassif in the Western Galilee, and various others locations. Activists from Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and the Young Communist League are involved in…
The Israel Prison Service (IPS) has suspended family visitation rights to Palestinian prisoners and is continuing its crackdown on prisoners as the large-scale “Freedom and Dignity” prisoner hunger strike led by Marwan Barghouti entered its third day. Some 1,500 prisoners are participating in the strike, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Tuesday. Amnesty…