Ibrahim Omar Sarhan, a 21-year-old student at An Najah National University was killed by Israeli forces in the early hours of July 13, 2011 in Al Far’a refugee camp near Nablus. Despite the fact that Ibrahim was unarmed, posed no threat to the soldiers, had never been previously arrested or wanted for arrest, and was on his way to say good bye to his parents after attending the dawn prayer at the local mosque, the Israeli Army has justified this tragic death as part of a “standard arrest procedure.”
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The featured films were made by 13 Palestinian ex-detainee children during as part of the “Post-trauma Rehabilitation of Palestinian ex-detainee children in the West Bank Programme”. Through the workshop the children learnt how to use and create animations to discuss their concerns, report on their situation and educate other children and adults about issues important to their lives.
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A primary school for Palestinian Bedouin children in the Jerusalem area is to be destroyed after Israeli settlers pushed the military to carry out the demolition. It could be destroyed at any time. Seventy pupils from the Arab Jahalin tribe will be left without a school. Demolitions of Bedouin homes in the area are also scheduled to take place soon.
Students from Edinburgh Universities Students for Justice in Palestine solidarity group and Birzeit’s Right to Education Campaign met on Monday 14th November for a video conference as part of the campaigns International Right to Education …
Located just north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the entrance to the Palestinian village of Beit Ommar is also the site of an Israeli military post. The people of Beit Ommar have been resisting since 1948, when the town’s inhabitants fought the original settler population of Gush Etzion and today many continue to suffer the impact of the many surrounding settlements.
Mic Check – Fact Check. Two Israel propaganda events at different Chicago-area universities where protested in the last few days by student activists, showing the increasing difficulty Israel and its supporters are having. The events held by Gil Hoffman, columnist with the right-wing The Jerusalem Post and pro Israel group StandWithUs faced mass walkouts.
Edinburgh University Students for Justice in Palestine take part in the International Right to Education Week 2010. This week of events aims to highlight the difficulties Palestinian students face in accessing education while they continue to live under occupation, to give an introduction to the political situation and to life in Palestine, and to mobilize students and the wider community to campaign on these issues.
Soldiers tear gassed a girls elementary school in Beit Ommar this morning following a student demonstration commemorating the anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death. Three hundred students ages 7 to 15 marched from the Beit Ommar il-Assasiyya boys school to the checkpoint at the entrance of the village waving Palestinian flags and chanting against the occupation. Several students gave speeches in memory of Yasser Arafat.
Hundreds of student activists from dozens of colleges and universities across the US are expanding the grassroots movements for Palestine solidarity activism despite aggressive smear campaigns by pro-Israel groups.
Hundreds of student activists from dozens of colleges and universities across the US are expanding the grassroots movements for Palestine solidarity activism despite aggressive smear campaigns by pro-Israel groups.
On 11 February 2010, at least 17 children were arrested from the Al Jalazun Refugee Camp in the middle of the night by Israeli soldiers. The children and their families report the use of excessive force during the arrests, and ill-treatment and coercion during subsequent interrogations. The children were interrogated in the absence of a lawyer and family member, and the interrogations were not video recorded. The children are accused of throwing stones, and in some cases, Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers in 2009 and 2010. The children are being prosecuted in military courts.
