Only six out of the original 27 Freedom Waves participants have been released, twenty-one participants are still detained in Israeli prisons. Egyptian journalist with Almasry Alyoum, Lina Attalah was the first to be released, she was handed over to officials at the Egyptian Embassy in Israel who later escorted her back home to Egypt through Taba crossing, Lina wrote an eyewitness account which can be found here. Read more about Freedom Waves participants still detained in Israeli prison
UPDATED (16:40 – 4 November 2011). PRESS RELEASE: Freedom Waves to Gaza – ‘FREEDOM WAVES TO GAZA BOARDED BY ISRAELI MILITARY’.
Canadian and Irish ships sailing with Freedom Waves to Gaza have been illegally boarded by the Israeli military in international waters a short while ago. Read more about UPDATED: Urgent: ships BOARDED by Israeli Navy
Demonstrations were held today in Ramallah and Gaza in support with the Freedom Waves flotilla on it’s way to Gaza.
Protesters in Ramallah marched from Manara Square to a UN building to demand protection for the Freedom Waves flotilla.
Palestinian youth also submitted a statement demanding UN action to protect the boats and end complicity with the Gaza siege. Read more about Actions in support with the FreedomWaves ships
In the latest attempt to challenge Israel’s heinous, inhumane, and unjustified blockade over the Palestinian Gaza strip, two boats carrying Palestinian and international activists and journalists have set sail towards Gaza. Israel has used filthy tactics to foil last summer’s Gaza-bound flotilla. Read more about FreedomWaves to Gaza!
Not one day did the two liberated Palestinian prisoners Khuweiled and Nizar Ramadan enjoy being out of Prison. A Jewish Settler family from the illegal settlement Yitzahar has declared that it will reward $100,000 to whoever murders Khuweiled or Nizar. The ad for this ugly bounty has appeared on the Hebrew daily Maariv. Read more about Palestinian ex-prisoners harassed by Jewish extremists
A new video titled “A Message from Palestine” has surfaced on the internet and is being shared by many Palestinian youth who agree with its message. Read more about "A Message from Palestine"
In this article previously published on +972 magazine, I discuss the censorship of material in Palestinian textbooks in East Jerusalem schools — a clearly illegal and dangerous move by the Jerusalem Education Adminstration (JEA). Read more about Israel censors Palestinian textbooks in East Jerusalem
Education served through school is never enough; it does not define a student’s character and personality. What defines a student is his/her level of awareness of the environment they live in, the knowledge they gain by reading, learning about, and exploring the world around them. That is what motivated us to organize Palestine’s first high school Model United Nations conference, PalMUN.Read more about Palestinian Model United Nations
This video caught my attention this afternoon, but it sure isn’t an isolated incident against Palestinians in Israel.
In the video, Israeli police appear to be attacking and brutalizing a Palestinian man in Jaffa in order to evict him and his family from a vacant property in which they sheltered. Read more about Watch: Israeli police brutalizing Palestinian man
While Palestinians are defenseless and under attack in villages and cities around the West Bank, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Hebron to show support for the United Nations bid for Statehood and express their full support for their leader, Mahmoud Abbas. Read more about Thousands rally in West Bank for statehood bid
