50 aid groups demand end to Gaza blockade

Maan News Agency | June 14, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Fifty international charities and UN agencies called Thursday on Israel to lift its years-long blockade of the Gaza Strip. Marking the fifth anniversary of the siege, the organizations — among them Amnesty International, Médecins du Monde, Oxfam, and Save the Children — joined agencies like […]

Continue reading →

#PalHunger | Human rights groups call for immediate transfer of hunger strikers to civilian hospitals

MEMO | Thursday, 07 June 2012 13:30 As organisations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights, the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations (PCHRO) and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) are gravely concerned for the lives of three Palestinian prisoners who remain on hunger strike in Israeli prison. Today (Wednesday, 6 June), Mahmoud […]

Continue reading →

DFLP leader calls for settler watch groups

Maan News Agency | May 27, 2012   RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinians must respond to settler attacks by reactivating popular watch groups, a leader from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Sunday. Qais Abed al-Karim stressed the importance of forming popular watch committees to protect Palestinians and their property from increasing settler […]

Continue reading →

Gaza group calls for armed resistance

Maan News Agency | March 29, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Popular Resistance Movement on Thursday said armed resistance is the only strategy which will liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation. At a news conference in Gaza City, the movement called on all factions to approve an agreement to protect the Palestinian resistance. “The enemy’s […]

Continue reading →

51-year old Palestinian prisoner Kifah Hattab on hunger strike for 22 days

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 09:38 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The family of Palestinian prisoner Kifah Hattab has said that he has been on hunger strike for 22 days in Israeli occupation jails but the media and human rights groups were ignoring him. The family told the PIC reporter on Tuesday that 51-year-old Hattab was detained […]

Continue reading →

European groups meet in London to arrange for global march to J’lem

[PIC  21/02/2012 – 08:39 AM ] LONDON, (PIC)– Pro-Palestinian organizations from different European countries intend to hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the arrangements to be made for the global march towards occupied Jerusalem, which will take place on the 36th anniversary of the Palestinian land day. Representatives of these organizations will come to […]

Continue reading →

Israeli Groups Call to Al-Aqsa Attack Today

Qatar News Agency Article Date: 11:28 2012/02/19 Article ID: 0018 Occupied Jerusalem, February 19 (QNA) – A Jerusalem-based organization has uncovered a plan by Jewish groups to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday in prelusion to building the “Third Temple” on the mosque”s ruins. According to a press statement by Al-Aqsa Endowments and Heritage Foundation, an […]

Continue reading →

Human rights group appeal for saving the lives of 450 patients in Gaza

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | In pictures Aug-Sept 2011 | Oct-Nov 2011 | Dec 2011 [ 15/12/2011 – 08:47 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) appealed on Thursday to the PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, to intervene to save the lives of 450 kidney patients in the Gaza Strip as […]

Continue reading →

Jewish groups say U.S. funds ‘vital’ for PA to suppress resistance

[ 14/09/2011 – 08:43 PM ] WASHINGTON, (PIC)– Jewish organizations in the United States have called on Congress to continue funding the Palestinian Authority in order to aid the security forces in suppressing the resistance movement in the West Bank. Pro-Israeli organizations the Israeli Project and J Street urged the U.S. not to follow through […]

Continue reading →

Boycott Bill Passed in Knesset; Human Rights Groups Vie to Challenge It

PNN – Palestine News Network – 12.07.11 – 14:19 Tel Aviv – PNN – The controversial ‘Boycott Bill’ was passed last night in the Knesset as 47 MK’s voted for and 38 against. The Bill was approved in its final reading after six hours of Knesset discussion and plenaries. Many Knesset members were not even […]

Continue reading →

“Boycott Bill” Slammed By Israeli Civil Society Groups

  Tuesday July 12, 2011 11:04 by Kevin Murphy – IMEMC and Agencies Israeli opposition politicians and civil society have come out against new legislation passed Monday in the Knesset that outlaws the boycott of Israeli goods, including settlement goods, in the state of Israel. The bill has been slammed as destroying freedom of speech […]

Continue reading →

Israeli groups to challenge boycott law in court

July 12, 2011 JERUSALEM – A coalition of Israeli human rights groups said Tuesday it would ask the country’s Supreme Court to overturn a new law that bans boycotting Jewish West Bank settlements — legislation critics see as the government’s latest attempt to muzzle dissent. A spokeswoman for the rights groups, Tamara Traubmann, said the […]

Continue reading →

Waed urges human rights groups to visit Israeli jails

[ 09/06/2011 – 11:26 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Waed society catering for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has called on human rights groups to visit those jails especially the Ramle prison hospital to see for themselves the medical neglect and the conditions of those who are permanently held there. Waed said in a statement […]

Continue reading →

THE NEW ONLINE “CHECKPOINT”: FACEBOOK

SPEACIAL TOPIC Don’t forget to read the related news of Free Speech Killers below the article – continuous updates. If you also own a page which has been deleted and  you want us to create awareness for it. Plz send us a message with the form below… Update Aug 3, 2013 | The “Online Checkpoint” […]

Continue reading →

Gaza groups call on Hamas to probe attacks on peaceful rallies

09:51, March 17, 2011 Increases the bookmark twitter facebook digg Google Windowslive Delicious buzz friendfeed Linkedin diigo reddit stumbleupon Gaza-based rights groups on Wednesday called on Islamic Hamas movement’s government that rules the Gaza Strip to probe its police’s violent attacks against peaceful rallies in Gaza on Tuesday. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank […]

Continue reading →