Shireen Issawi, the sister of Palestinian detainee Samer Issawi who is on a months-long hunger strike against his imprisonment by the Israeli occupation forces, reported on Wednesday that her brother had successfully thwarted Israeli attempts to coerce him to end his hunger strike. According to Shireen, an intelligence officer of the Occupation forces on Tuesday threatened Samer inside the...
STATEMENT ISSUED March 10 by PALESTINIANS FOR DIGNITY – President Obama’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territory comes at a time when our prisoners are waging a hunger strike battle in the face of Israeli government obstinacy, and in the face of US silence towards the slow murder these heroes are being subjected to. Most recently Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat died during...
Yesterday, the Twitter actions initiated by the Free Samer Issawi Campaign met with some unforeseen confusion. In the USA, the clock was turned back to summer time, so the Campaign which is based in the United States went online to tweet one hour earlier in comparison to other time zones. To avoid a repeat of this confusion, it has...
RAMALLAH – The bride, a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, the groom, a Palestinian from the West Bank, accompanied by tens of activists approached Hizma checkpoint from its two sides and demanded their right to love and live without racist and separation policies. Using tear-gas and sound bombs, Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint prevented the bride and the groom from meeting...
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