Archive for July, 2005
Israel/Palestine: press release – July 29, 2005
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Press releases on July 29, 2005
Bil’in, Palestinian Occupied Territories, July 29th 2005
Israeli Border Police violently disperse peaceful demonstrators. Four Israeli and one Irish woman arrested, two Palestinians and three Israelis injured.
Today, July 29th, at around 1.00 p.m., a nonviolent group of demonstrators (Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals) has tried to reach the Separation Wall building yard close to the Palestinian village of Bil’in (Ramallah area).
They were carrying a symbolic polystyrene white and orange house, to protest against the displacement of Gaza’s settlers to West Bank settlements after the disengagement of next August.
Every demonstrator was wearing a notice saying “I am Abdallah Abu Rahma� in different languages, to show solidarity with Abdallah Abu Rahma, arrested from the Israeli Police during the last demonstration against the Wall in Bil’in.
Abdallah Abu Rahma, who was peacefully demonstrating, has been beaten before being arrested. Up to July 28th Haaretz newspaper, “the videotape, which Haaretz also obtained, clearly shows the Border policemen violently attacking the man and kicking him after they had subdued him and held him prone on the ground (…) these demonstrations, defined by participants as peaceful, frequently turn into violent clashes with the Border Police’s company 22, assigned to disperse the demonstrations. An investigation by Haaretz has found that policemen from that company have made false accusations against demonstrators and even made arrests on the basis of those accusationsâ€?. (…)
News from Uganda: Newsletter June 2005 – Justice and Peace Gulu
Posted by opcol in North Uganda on July 25, 2005
JUSTICE AND PEACE GULU.
NEWSLETTER JUNE 2005.
CONTENTS
1.THE FORGOTTEN DISPLACED PEOPLE OF TESO
2.OUR UPDATE ON THE PEACE PROCESS
3.A DAY IN A PARALEGAL’S LIFE
4.TRAUMA IN AN ON-GOING VIOLENT SITUATION
5.OUR ACTIVITIES. MAY 2005
6.RECENT CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
Report: “Witnesses and victims: International accompaniment in at-Tuwani”
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Updates from Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories on July 24, 2005
Some volunteers from Operation Dove met last week John Dugard, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories. They presented him a new report on activities of Operation Dove and Christian Peacemaker Teams in Southern Hebron Hills.
Click below to download the report in PDF:
WITNESSES AND VICTIMS: International accompaniment in at-Tuwani
Update: at-Tuwani – Masafer Yatta – Suseya / 11-20 July 2005
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Updates from Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories on July 24, 2005
Main facts:
Monday, 18th: Settler attack reported in Susiya (happened on Saturday 16th).
Wednesday ,20th: Army pushed flocks away from settler fence.
Tuesday, 12th July 2005
Settler security car come close to the village.
In the evening, fireworks in the village to celebrate the successful end of the secondary school by 4 students of the village. Settlers security came on the top of the hill in front of the village (around 100 meters from the first house) with a jeep with a searchlight and they start to check all the village with the light.
Wednesday, 13th
Police gave back a stolen donkey to his owner.
A CPTer went to Kyriat Arba in order to accompany a shepherd to complain about his stolen donkey (see update of 10th July). They had waited for two hours outside the entrance. Then they made the complain to an arabic speaker officer that promised them that they would have been accompanied to Karmel settlement. After another two hours they have been told to go to Karmel settlement by themselves. At the entrance of Karmel there were the police, four settlers and the donkey. The police gave the donkey to the shepherd that left soon. Settlers yelled against the CPTer.
Update: Tuwani-Masafer Yatta / 3-11 July
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Updates from Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories on July 18, 2005
Update from At-Tuwani/Masafer Yatta 3rd -11th July 2005
Operation Dove
7 July: Settlers plowing Palestinian land with protection of IDF.
10 July: Donkey likely stolen by Karmel settlers security.
Update: Tuwani / 18-30 June 2005
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Updates from Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories on July 18, 2005
At-Tuwani Update 18th – 30th June 2005
Operation Dove
June 24: One Palestinian man arrested in Al Carmel by IDF and Israelis police
June 25: PA Minister opened At-Tuwani clinic, but it has been empty and without doctor.
June 26: IDF closed once more the road to Al Carmel Yatta and tried to prevent a tractor with sheep feed from reaching UmmFakara.
June 27: PA Minister visited At-Tuwani.
June 30: UN Special Rapporter for Human Rights visited At-Tuwani and UmmFakara
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