Palestine Blogs

International Solidarity Movement 19 March 2010 The smell of tear gas hung over the villages of Ni’lin and Bil’in today. The shouts demanded an end to apartheid and access to farmlands. The odd and...

19 March 2010 International Solidarity Movement For immediate release: The Israeli Supreme Court handed down its verdict last week regarding the arrest of International Solidarity Movement activists...

14th March 2010 The Israeli military sent eight jeep loads of soldiers to Iraq Burin, near Nablus, on Saturday to prevent villagers from accessing their farmland. Violent settler attacks on previous...

Rachel Corrie Foundation 17 March 2010 For Immediate Release: Today March 17, 2010 the Haifa District Court saw a fourth day of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against...

International Solidarity Movement 17 March 2010 In reaction to the blanket West Bank closure and Israel’s severe limitation of entrance into Al-Aqsa Mosque, demonstrations spread through Jerusalem. ...

David Bromwich | The Huffington Post 16 March 2010 To wipe the spit off his face, Biden had to say it was only rain.” The Israeli journalist Akiva Eldar was tapping a vein of bitter Jewish...

International Solidarity Movement 16 March 2010 Approximately 200 residents of Qalandiya gathered today to protest the continued closure of the checkpoint in their city, allowing them access to...

16 March 2010 Palestinian activist Wa’el Al-Faqeeh faced his third hearing in Salim military court on 11 March. His detention period was extended until 24 April when the next hearing will take...

16 March 2010 On March 16th 2003, an Israeli bulldozer killed the American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah, Gaza. Today, in Kafr Sur, near Tulkarem, and in Ramallah, family, friends and supporters...

13 March 2010 On Friday, March 13th, the one year anniversary of the critical injury of international activist Tristan Anderson, approximately 100 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals gathered...

Rachel Corrie Foundation 15 March 2010 For Immediate Release: Today, March 15, 2010, the Haifa District Court saw the third day of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family...

15 March 2010 Two months ago there was one weekly demonstration in the Bethlehem area, this weekend alone there were four. With Al-Ma’sara on Friday, Beit Ummar and Jubbet adh Dhib on Saturday and...

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 14 March 2010 One week after the head of the Israeli Shin Bet threatened to aggravate the repression of the Palestinian popular struggle, a large military...

Rachel Corrie Foundation 14 March 2010 For Immediate Release: Today 14 March 2010 the Haifa District Court saw the second full day of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family...

6 March 2010 Thousands attended last Saturday’s demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah, demanding an end to the home evictions which have displaced hundreds of Palestinian residents. Gathering peacefully for...

12 March 2010 Deep dissatisfaction with the Israeli policy of preventing access to the 300 metre belt along the border have resulted in a rise in number of weekly protests in Gaza and a significant...

12 March 2010 The Israeli military today continued their attempts to repress the weekly demonstration in An Nabi Saleh. Following on from their near fatal shooting of a 14 year old boy a week ago,...

Donald Macintyre | The Independent 12 March 2010 Ehab Barghouti would not have been at the demonstration at all if his father Asdal had had his way. Asdal found his son, 14, on the road from...

Cnaan Liphshiz | Ha’aretz 12 March 2010 The state this week agreed to reinvestigate the 2009 near-fatal wounding of American pro-Palestinian protester Tristan Anderson in the West Bank,...

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 12 March 2010 This week the parents of Tristan Anderson filed an appeal on the decision to close the investigation concerning their son’s injury.– The 38...