Israel to let Arab youth football teams into West Bank after obstructing entry

Maan News Agency | Aug 17, 2013 AMMAN (AFP) — Israel has bowed to pressure from UEFA to allow Arab youth football teams into the Palestinian territories, having initially denied them entry, a Jordanian official said on Friday. Israel’s refusal to grant West Bank entry to players and coaching staff delayed the West Asia Football […]

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URGENT ACTION ALERT: Help replace volunteers to whom Israel denied entry last week ~ by @cptchicago

CPTnet | 10 July 2013 AL-KHALIL (HEBRON) URGENT ACTION: Help replace volunteers to whom Israel denied entry last week On two occasions in the past week, Israeli officials at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport refused entry to members of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) who had traveled to Israel to join the Christian Peacemaker Team […]

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Egyptian intelligence blocks travel of two Palestinians MPs

[ PIC 05/05/2013 – 09:51 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Egyptian intelligence apparatus refused to allow two Palestinian lawmakers to travel via the Rafah border crossing on Sunday. Hamas denounced the measure in a terse statement, adding that coordination for the travel of MPs Salah Al-Bardawil and Ismail Al-Ashqar was made last Friday. Hamas condemned […]

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Israel halts entry of West Bankers to 1948 occupied Palestine

[ PIC 13/01/2013 – 11:36 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities have stopped issuing permits for Palestinian West Bankers to enter occupied Jerusalem or 1948 occupied Palestine, sources in the Palestinian liaison office said Saturday. They noted that no permits were issued for more than a month except for patients, adding that the […]

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NAM condemns Israel for barring ministers from Ramallah

Egyptian FM Mohammed Kamel Amr speaks as other Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ministers listen on at a news conference in Amman on August 5, 2012. PressTV | Sun Aug 5, 2012 8:49PM GMT This Israeli action highlights once again to NAM and to the whole international community the plight of the Palestinian people in their struggle […]

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For the second day .. Egypt continues to prevent businessmen from entering Gaza

[ PIC 07/05/2012 – 07:56 PM ] GAZA (PIC) — On Sunday, Egypt’s security forces continued to prevent the delegation of the Arab businessmen (coming from14 Arab countries) from entering Gaza to participate in Palestine investment conference, which is supposed to kick off on Monday, May 7 in the Gaza Strip. The delegation’s source told […]

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IOA bars Sheikh Ekrema Sabri from entering Aqsa for two months

[ PIC 18/04/2012 – 04:45 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The commander of the Israeli central command has imposed a ban on the entry of Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, Aqsa preacher and head of the higher Islamic authority, into the Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem for two months. Sheikh Ekrema described the decision as “racist, arbitrary, […]

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IOA refuses to allow travel for treatment for MP Beitawi

[ PIC 14/03/2012 – 11:17 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has refused to allow the travel of MP Hamed Al-Beitawi to Jordan for badly needed medical treatment, local sources said. The sources told the PIC reporter that Beitawi, 70, was in need of urgent open heart surgery and could not do […]

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#Airflotilla | Action of Paris – France: persists in being “Welcome to Palestine” – in pictures

Ya wardi ana 3al French activists. #Palestine #Israel #AirFlotilla #Flotilla2 — Iman (@AmmounAAY) July 11, 2011 #AirFlotilla: Activists in #Paris at Air France desk to book new flights for #TelAviv. Closed when they saw us. http://twitpic.com/5ojs8j — Iman (@AmmounAAY) July 11, 2011 #AirFlotilla: at Air France desk, policemen start arriving. #Paris — Iman (@AmmounAAY) July […]

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#Airflotilla – ‪Testimony: Denied Entry into Israel‬‏ – video

TheRealNews | July 10, 2011 Nadine Nasir is a Canadian of Palestinian origin. Like many Palestinians who were born abroad but whose parents or grandparents became refugees in 1948, she was not allowed to enter Israel. Here she reports on her experiences being denied entry multiple times both to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. […]

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Israel’s refusal to allow entry breaches international law

1 June 2007 | The Electronic Intifada To date, Israeli authorities have failed to provide a transparent policy on which foreign nationals wishing to enter or maintain their presence in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) can rely. Instead, Israel has continued to pursue both policies and practices that fail to comply with International Humanitarian Law. […]

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