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• Palestinian Activist Criticizes Attempts To Sanitize Forced Displacement In Sheikh Jarrah
  12 June 2021, by siawi3

  “Just because you can legalize an evil act doesn’t make it any less evil”

• Heads of two Palestinian human rights organizations threatened with arrest by Israel
  24 August 2022, by siawi3

  The Israeli forces had raided and ransacked the offices of seven Palestinian human rights organizations on August 18 in Ramallah and al-Bireh in the occupied West Bank. The occupation forces targeted the offices of DCIP, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Organisation, Bisan Centre for Research and Development, Union of Agricultural Works Committee, Al-Haq, and Union of Palestinian Women Committees.

• Israël: Palestinian women’s organization leader Khitam Saafin placed in administrative detention for 6 months
  12 November 2020, by siawi3

  Saafin was sent to administrative detention by an Israeli military commander just days after her arrest during which several other activists and leftist figures were also abducted and detained

• Three Activists Arrested After Blockading Drone Factory
  21 August 2021, by siawi3

  Palestine Action activists have been arrested after blockading the entrances to the Elbit UAV Tactical Systems drone factory in Leicester, having locked themselves to gates. The factory – used to produce Israel’s Hermes combat and surveillance drones – was targetted by Palestine Action for the second time, with the May occupation of the site lasting 6 days. The factory remains closed after this morning’s action.

• Palestine: ’Our Fight Is Not Over’: Egyptian-Palestinian Rights Activist Ramy Shaath Freed After 900+ Days
  12 January 2022, by siawi3

  “I had hope, and I continue to have hope,” said the co-founder of Egypt’s BDS movement. “I have hope for a better Middle East and a better world that we live in.” The family of Egyptian-Palestinian rights activist Ramy Shaath said Saturday that they “are relieved and overjoyed” to announce he is free after more than 900 days of “unjust detention under inhumane conditions” in Egypt.

• Palestinian detainees halt hunger strike, begin new phase of struggle
  19 October 2022, by siawi3

  Detainees declared a boycott of Israeli courts as part of their ‘continuous’ struggle against administrative detention. They also expressed solidarity with Palestinians resisting Israeli violence in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank

• Shireen Abu Akleh was deliberately killed by an Israeli sniper, claims fresh investigation report
  24 September 2022, by siawi3

  Even though Abu Akleh was a US citizen, all attempts by her family to seek US intervention in holding Israel accountable have failed to yield any result so far. Forensic Architecture and Al-Haq issued their findings after a new investigation. Abu Akleh’s family has moved the ICC seeking Israeli accountability for her killing

• Major Palestinian groups including Hamas and Fatah sign reconciliation deal
  19 October 2022, by siawi3

  Major groups that signed the “Algerian declaration” include Fatah, Hamas, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Divisions among various Palestinian groups emerged after the signing of the Oslo peace agreement between the PLO and Israel in 1994-95. A large number of the newer political groups opposed the deal, including Hamas. In the first Palestinian elections held in 2006, Hamas won the majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority, displacing Fatah as the largest group. However, Fatah refused to recognize Hamas’ victory, leading to months of clashes.

• Raising Awareness of Israeli War Crimes, with Palestine Action
  2 November 2021, by siawi3

  After the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in the summer — an action that left more than 250 dead — then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally thanked his British counterpart Boris Johnson for his “unwavering” support for his state’s actions.

• International support pours in for Palestinian human rights groups facing Israeli persecution
  24 August 2022, by siawi3

  Scores of rights groups have rejected attempts to delegitimize the Palestinian groups and called for greater international pressure on Israel to end its oppressive policies

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