Press Release – UN News

Ban Calls For De-Escalation Of Tensions Amid New Violence In Gaza And Southern Israel Read more »

Press Release – Mixit

This summer Auckland’s revitalised waterfront area Wynyard Quarter will be taken over by one of the city’s most important and dynamic youth projects A series of exhilarating performances will storm the concrete jungle with a high voltage site-specific … Read more »

Press Release – Triangle TV

The situation today has been built, and is still building, on centuries of animosity, complicated by western meddling — and muddling — that started a century or so ago. Read more »

Press Release – OHCHR

NEWS RELEASE International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory concludes work in Amman Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Defence Force

A Commemorative Service to observe the 94th anniversary of the Signing of the Armistice will be held at the National War Memorial in Wellington on Sunday. Read more »

Press Release – Stop the Wall Campaign

WSF Free Palestine Newsletter 1. International mobilization for the WSF Free Palestine Delegations from 36 countries from all five continents have already registered for the World Social Forum Free Palestine turning this event into the largest gathering … Read more »

Press Release – UFree

ACTION ALERT: UFree Network Condemns Renewed Solitary Confinement Of Prisoner Abu Sisi UFree Network | Campaigns The European Network to Support Rights of Palestinian Prisoners (UFree) expresses its profound condemnation over the ruling of an Israeli … Read more »

PRESS RELEASE
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
Ref: 79/2012
18/07/2012

Offices of External Medical Treatment Department in Gaza Closed for the 3rd Consecutive Day

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) follows with utmost concern the continued closure of the offices of the External Medical Treatment Department in Gaza, and warns of the serious repercussions of this closure on the health conditions of hundreds of Palestinian patients in the Gaza Strip who desperately need advanced medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip. PCHR calls for the exclusion of health services from the political conflict, and for prioritizing the interest of hundreds of patients who suffer from serious diseases and wait to be referred to hospitals outside the Gaza Strip to receive advanced medical treatment that is not available in the Gaza Strip. Read more »

By Julie Webb-Pullman
Translation by Mukarram AbuAlouf

26/06/2012

Mariam Alnao’ouk, Gaza Police Woman

At several public events over the past year in Gaza, I have noticed the presence of policewomen, complete with Hijab and blue hat. Contrary to the urban myths of the oppressed Muslim woman, these women appeared to be every bit as professional and effective as their western counterparts, as well as their male ones. Interest piqued, I sought and obtained an interview with Mariam Alnao’ouk, Representative of the Department of General Management of Policewomen in the Gaza Strip to find out a bit more about their work.  Read more »

Article – Palestinian Prisoner Letter

Jamal Abu Haija – Condition in the prisons and intention to begin an open-ended hunger strike Read more »

Article – Palestinian Information Center

CAIRO, (PIC)– Egyptian presidential hopeful Abdulmunem Abul Futtuh has said that he refuses to recognize Israel, describing it as a “racist entity”. Read more »

Press Release – Boycott Israel Network – BIN

Media Release: Campaigners welcome Co-operative Group move to end trade links with companies that source goods from illegal settlements Read more »

Press Release – OCHA

Statement by the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Maxwell Gaylard, on evictions in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hanina Read more »

Press Release – Gaza Interior Ministry

Anti-drug police in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday seized 15,000 grams of Al-Trumal in the possession of a drug dealers. Read more »

Press Release – Gaza Interior Ministry

Minister of Interior and National Security Mr. Fathi Hammad has given clear instructions to facilitate the tasks of journalists and media institutions in the Gaza Strip. Read more »

Press Release – UN News

UN Envoy Condemns Eviction Of Palestinian Families From East Jerusalem Homes New York, Apr 18 2012 2:10PM A senior United Nations official has condemned the eviction today of two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem and called for … Read more »

Press Release – Palestinian Centre For Human Rights

On Palestinian Prisoners Day, the Suffering of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails Doubles

Tuesday, 17 April 2012 07:00 Ref: 45/2012

Today, 17 April 2012, marks the Palestinian Prisoners Day, which has been devoted by the Palestinian people to support the cause of Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails. Since 1979, Palestinians have commemorated this day, which marks the anniversary of the release of Palestinian prisoners in the first prisoner swap deal of 17 April 1974. Read more »

Press Release – Gush Shalom

Gush Shalom Calls For Termination Of Police Mobilization At Tel Aviv Airport And Welcoming Of “Fly-In” Activists Read more »

Press Release – Palestinian Centre For Human Rights

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (05 – 11 April 2012) Read more »

Press Release – Palestinian Legislative Council

Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Dr. Ahmed Bahar called for intensifying pressure on the occupation government to release the detained MPs whose detention has been continuously extended. Read more »