Thousands march in the rally in Nazareth on Saturday, October 10. Among the marchers were all MKs of Hadash: Joint List chairman Aymen Odeh, Dov Khenin, Aida Touma-Sliman, Yousef Jabareen and Abdallah Abu Ma'aruf.

Thousands Rally in Nazareth vs. Occupation & for an Independent Palestinian State alongside Israel

Thousands demonstrated in Nazareth on Saturday afternoon, October 10, while Palestinian protests continued throughout the West Bank, around Jerusalem, and along the border of the Gaza Strip. In Nazareth, Arabs and Jews took part in a demonstration organized by the Jewish-Arab Hadash front and the Communist Party of Israel (CPI). The protest was called to…

MK Odeh: Netanyahu Still Being Led by Settlers Who Control His Coalition; Protest Today in Tel-Aviv

Joint List chairman, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday, October 8, after the PM extended to Arab MKs the ban he imposed a day earlier on Jewish MKs and ministers from ascending Al-Aqsa Mosque (Temple Mount). “Netanyahu is wobbly; he has no position or backbone,” Odeh slammed and continued: “Furthermore, Netanyahu has…

B’Tselem Demands: Immediate End to Use of Ruger Rifle and Live Ammunition by Occupation Forces

Following publication of the Israeli military’s probe into the incident in which 13-year-old Abdel Rahman Obeidallah was killed in the Palestinian ‘Aida Refugee Camp near Bethlehem on October 5 by a 0.22 caliber bullet, B’Tselem has demanded that Israel’s occupation forces immediately cease use of this ammunition as a means of crowd control and refrain…

Palestinians mourners demonstrate during the funeral of Ahmad Khatatbeh, 26, who died from his wounds after being shot three times in the shoulder, chest and abdomen by Israeli forces at the Beit Furik military checkpoint in the district of Nablus, the West Bank, last Friday, September 25, 2015.

CPI and Hadash: No to the Status Quo of Occupation!

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and Hadash released a statement over the weekend, in which they justify the claims of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu-Mazen), President of the Palestinian Authority when, in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, he blamed the Netanyahu government for escalating its crimes related to…

Human Rights Groups Petition against Force Feeding

On September 6, 2015, four human-rights organizations, including Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and HaMoked, petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court to revoke the amendment to the Prisons Ordinance, “Preventing Hunger-Strike Damages”, which was recently approved by the Knesset. In the petition, the organizations claim that the amendment purports to be legislation concerned with saving the lives of…