Israeli occupation forces cracked down late Friday morning, February 12, on a Palestinian-Israeli olive tree planting event that was to take place east of the villager of Burin, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, sponsored by the Israel-based Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) organization, Zo Haderech reported. Bashar Eid, a resident of Burin, said…
Hundreds of Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists demonstrated last Friday, January 8, in the village of Al-Rakeez, following the shooting of 24-year-old Haroun Abu Aram by an Israeli soldier there on January 1. The shooting has left Abu Aram paralyzed and in critical condition in a Palestinian hospital in the nearby city of Hebron. The Israeli army…
Well-known peace and anti-occupation activist Ezra Nawi, who was active in Palestinian causes and was termed a “public enemy” by the far-right government and settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories, died at the age of 69 on Saturday, January 9, just a few months after he was diagnosed with cancer. Nawi, a plumber by profession,…
More than 30 prominent human rights organizations and trade unions from Palestine and Europe have submitted a report to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, demanding that CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles) from the Basque region of Spain be included in the UN database of businesses involved…
Hallel Rabin was released from military prison two weeks ago after having spent a cumulative 56 days behind bars in four separate terms for refusing to serve in Israel’s army of occupation. On November 20, Rabin’s fourth stint in prison ended; a day later the army officially issued the exemption from service she sought. In…
A regional teleconference of the Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Gulf region conducted to express solidarity with the Palestinian people was held last Sunday, November 29, under the auspices of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). In 1977, the General Assembly of the United Nations called for the…
Palestinian detainee, Maher al-Akhras, continued his hunger strike for the 100th consecutive day on Tuesday, November 3, to protest his detention without trial by Israeli authorities, who have accused him of involvement in a terror group. A solidarity demonstration with the prisoner was held on Tuesday by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel…
Hadash MKs and 80 Jewish and Arab activists, most of them members of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), together with Rabbis for Human Rights, took part last Friday, October 30, in the olive harvest in the village of Burin in the occupied West Bank. The volunteers assisted Palestinian farmers gather the harvest from their trees.…
Leading member of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), Hadash MK Ofer Cassif (Joint List), and the family of Palestinian hunger-striker Maher al-Akhras, 49, announced on Saturday, October 24, that they would join him in his action after Israeli authorities refused to allow them to visit the hospitalized political prisoner, despite fears that he is close…
Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, May Day events commemorating this year’s International Workers’ Solidarity Day will take place tomorrow, Friday May 1, with a number of rallies and demonstrations across Israel, including in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Acre, Kufr Yassif in the Western Galilee, and other locales. Activists from Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and…