Peace Now: Gilad society to build a tourist center in Silwan district

[ PIC 07/06/2012 – 03:20 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Peace Now movement revealed an Israeli plan to build a tourist center in Ein Silwan district south of the Aqsa Mosque. Spokeswoman for Peace Now Hagit Ofran stated on Thursday that the settlers of Gilad society intend to exploit the tourist sector to justify […]

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Graffiti commemorates life of Vittorio Arrigoni – in pictures

Related Vik, A Friend, A Brother, A Humanist Demotix | Febr 5, 2012 | Photography by Jeffrey Bright Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian reporter who worked with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement in the Gaza Strip from 2008 until his death 2011, is remembered in graffiti seen around the port. Palestinian Territory. 4th February 2012 Vittorio […]

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Prisoners Society Releases Partial List of Prisoners to be Released in Second Phase – List of Names in English

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.12.11 – 05:41 PNN – On Thursday, the Palestine News Network (PNN) obtained a partial list of 220 of the 550 Palestinian prisoners to be freed in the second phase of mid-October’s Hamas-Israel prisoner swap. […]

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Prisoners society: Saadat loses 10 kilos in strike

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Maan News Agency | October 18, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Fares Qaddura, head of the Palestinian prisoners society, says the secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine will enter his 23rd day on hunger strike Wednesday. Ahmad Saadat […]

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Prisoners society: 9 female detainees not included in deal

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category Maan News Agency | Oct 16, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian prisoners society on Sunday released the names of 9 female detainees it said are not included in the prisoner exchange set to take place on Tuesday. Suad Ahmad Abdul Raouf, Lina Ahmad […]

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Handicapped Palestinians sell handmade products to maintain independence – video

PressTV – September 28, 2011 Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children, a registered Palestinian NGO located in Gaza city, has been working in the field of deaf education and allied services since 1992. Literally thousands of deaf children and adults and their families are served annually at Atfaluna through deaf education, audiology, speech therapy, income generating […]

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A new Israeli law criminalizes support to Palestinian civil society campaigns.

  PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.07.11 – 16:50 Ramallah – PNN – A repressive law criminalizing support for the Palestinian civil society campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was approved last night by the Israeli parliament (Knesset). The new legislation will punish both Israeli people and organisations active in any kind […]

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Gaza flotilla, “flytilla” and the prospect for civil society action

By Gilad Atzmon | 12 July 2011 |   Redress Gilad Atzmon argues that this year’s Gaza flotilla has succeeded even without reaching Gaza, in that it has highlighted the true nature of Israel. But he says that pro-Palestinian activists must now turn their focus closer to home “to locate [Israel’s] mercenaries around us, in our […]

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On flotillas and the law: civil society versus Israel lobbies in US and Europe

By Lawrence Davidson | Redress | 9 July 2011 Lawrence Davidson argues that the deadly influence of Israeli special interests groups on Western governments, especially that of the USA, means that advocates of justice for the Palestinians have only one recourse: civil society actions such as the Gaza humanitarian flotillas. ”If we persist there will […]

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Sabotaging Flotilla II: Waging War Against Civil Society ~ by Prof. Em. Richard Falk

by Richard Falk | Foreign Policy Journal | July 5, 2011 The reports that two of the foreign flagged ships planning to be part of the ten vessel Freedom Flotilla II experienced similar forms of disabling sabotage creates strong circumstantial evidence of Israeli responsibility. It stretches the imagination to suppose that a sophisticated cutting of […]

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Palestinian civil society and Israeli citizens of conscience condemn France’s suppression of human rights

June 16, 2011 |   BDSmovement.net Palestinian civil society and Israeli citizens of conscience condemn France’s suppression of human rights The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broadest Palestinian civil society coalition and the Palestinian leadership of the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, and Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call From […]

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Prisoner society appeals for saving lives of patients in Israeli jails

[ 25/04/2011 – 06:54 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner society appealed to international human rights organizations, especially the Red Cross to immediately intervene to save the lives of dozens of Palestinian patients imprisoned in Israeli jails. Head of the society Ragheb Abu Diyak in a press release on Monday said the international human […]

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Tadamun society reveals letter of demands sent by prisoners

[ 06/04/2011 – 02:48 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– International Tadamun (solidarity) society for human rights said it received on Tuesday morning a letter leaked from an Israeli jail including humanitarian demands made by Palestinian prisoners. The society noted that the prisoners in their letter demanded to end violations against their rights and to fulfill their […]

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Civil Society and Palestine: The Growing Power of the Ordinary

Mar 15, 2011 Civil society is now part of the overall political equation. (Aljazeera) By Ramzy Baroud The global boycott movement (BDS) and other related campaigns were aimed at exposing Israeli transgressions against the Palestinian people and galvanizing international solidarity. What is so uplifting to see now is how their achievements have far surpassed these […]

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Red Crescent Shuts Down Services Centers; Employees Outraged

PNN – Palestine News Network –  07.03.11 – 11:36 Ramallah – PNN – Red Crescent employees sent out urgent calls to union leaders and members of parliament in protest of shutting down service centers across the West Bank. Red Crescent Society Ambulance                   On Sunday the Red Crescent Society […]

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