On Sunday 21st of April, Manar Zawareh was released after spending one year in an Israeli prison, a statement issued by the Detainees’ Center in Bethlehem said.

The Center arranged an event to celebrate her homecoming and Zawareh called for the release of female detainees in Israeli prisons. She told the participants that there are fourteen female prisoners in Israel’s Hasharon prison and she described the conditions as dire.

The names of the prisoners are Lina Ahmad Jarbony, Salwa Abed Al’zez Hassan, Ala’ Issa Aljo’ba, Hadeel Talal Abu Torky, Asmaa Yousef Albatran, An’am Abed Aljabar Hasanat, Nawal Sa’ed Alsa’de, Muna Hseen Ga’dan, Intesar Mohammad Alsayad, Ala’ Mohammad Qasem Abu Zeton, Naheel … Continue reading

On March 30th a number of citizens from the town of Beit Ommar joined by Youth Power participated in the town’s weekly demonstration. Demonstrators walked towards an area of land that has been threatened of being confiscated by the Israeli army, which is near Karmie Tzors settlement. The demonstration was in honour of international Land Day.

Protesters raised banners and Palestinian flags demonstrating their right and ownership of the rural land. The occupied forces dispersed after approximately one hour of shooting tear gas, sound bombs and life bullets in the direction of the protestors. The Israeli Occupation Forces arrested the journalist Abed Alhafez Alhashlamon for only a few hours. Soldiers also violently attacked the secretary of the popular committee, Ahmad Abu … Continue reading

Israeli occupation forces arrested at dawnTuesday February 26th, 5 young men from Arroub refugee camp, the town of Beit Ommer and Yatta near Hebron. Israeli forces raided their homes searching the houses and using sound gernades and tear gas inside civilian property. According to local sources in Arroub refugee camp which is situated north of Hebron, adjacent to the town of Beit Ommar, Israeli military forces stormed the camp and arrested two young men: Mohammed Nizar Titi (18) and Ayman al-Titi (18 years). Local sources in Beit Ommar reported on the same night that occupation forces stormed the village of Beit Ommar and arrested two young men Ahmed Youssef Hassan Khalil (25) and Ahmed Wahid Hassan Sabarneh (22 years). … Continue reading

This week international media from across the world has been reporting about the imposed new Palestinian only bus lines. The Afikim bus began operating on March 4th, Palestinian-only bus lines will stop Palestinians from boarding buses with Jewish passengers. The bus lines are a controversial matter and are raising the question in international media -Is Israel an apartheid state? In the West Bank the segregation between Palestinians and settlers is a part of the infrastructure of the occupation. Here at PSP we see the new Palestinian only buses as a racially discriminative policy within a system of segregation. The Israeli government has many racially discriminative policy’s effecting the Palestinians. The Law of Return, grants every Jew in the world an … Continue reading

In Jerusalem, Ma’an news reported that an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman passed by a Palestinian woman and all of a sudden hit her in the face. Other women, who were on the street joined her and together they started to beat up the woman with force. These kind of violent attacks have been on the rise. In Jerusalem only a few months ago a young Palestinian man was beaten badly by a large group of Jewish settlers. The man is apparently still in hospital none of the Jewish settlers who attacked the young man have been charged or apprehended by Israeli Police.

February 24th 2013

Palestinian Prisoner Arafat Jaradat from the town of Seir, in Hebron in the southern West Bank died Saturday evening in Megiddo prison. The prisoner Jaradat suffered a severe heart attack which led to his death. Jaradat died after 6 days of his arrest. Media sources says the ambulances rushed to the prison and tried to save his life but he had already died of a heart attack before they arrived. The Israeli prison administration said that the deceased prisoner is not among the prisoners on hunger strike. Tensions about prisoners are rising in the West Bank with the worsening conditions of the health of the hunger … Continue reading

Today in Hebron city there was a protest at Shuhada Street to be reopened for Palestinians. The street has been seized by Israeli Occupation Forces and is considered a closed military zone for more than eight-teen years, restricting the passage of Palestinian citizen. Despite the fact that the road has been closed to Palestinians for so long today more than 400 Palestinians accompanied by foreign activists gathered to demonstrate their right to pass through the road which leads to Ibrahim’s mosque. Palestinian’s and international activists began the the demonstration on the outskirts of the old city and walked towards … Continue reading

This Saturday’s weekly demonstration in Beit Ommar, which was once again attended by residents and Israeli activists who have been protesting against Israeli Occupation and Apartheid since 2008, had a special message against the arbitrary and illegal killings of Palestinian civilians. In particular, residents carried signs in support of Lubna Hanash, who was killed by Israeli soldiers who opened fire on her while she stood in front of the Aroub Agricultural College, just down the road from Beit Ommar.

The demonstration, which was held near one of the Israeli settlements built on Beit Ommar land-Karmei Tsur. Israeli soldiers immediately attacked the protesters, attempting to … Continue reading

On January 15, Samir Awad, 16 years old, finished his final exams and went on what was a regular walk out of his school and a few yards behind it, where Israeli built its Annexation Barrier in 2004. Youth from Budrus often attack the barrier, a symbol of the continued illegal occupation of their lands. Samir was ambushed by Israeli soldiers on two sides. He was shot four times, twice in the legs, once in the chest and once in the head. It was, as our long-time friend and head of the popular committee of Budrus, Ayed “Abu Ahmed” Morar said, an assassination.
PSP and the popular committee of Beit Ommar has a close relationship with the … Continue reading

Palestine Solidarity Project has once again been at the center of some of the most important organizing and activism in Palestine and in Palestine solidarity World Wide. Some of our 2012 highlights:

*PSP Co-Founder Mousa Abu Maria, former political prisoner who was held in prison with Khader Adnan and Thaer Halahle was an incomparable resource on the epic hunger strikes that these men led while in Administrative Detention. After their releases, both Khader Adnan and Thaer Halahle met with PSP and joined in their weekly demonstrations in Beit Ommar

*PSP Co-Founder Bekah Wolf testified at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, which passed several resolutions boycotting Israeli Settlement Products and supporting Palestinian non-violent resistance in … Continue reading