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International Work in Palestine Tuesday 30th May 6.30pm Cowley Club, 12 London Rd, Brighton

Discussion and film showing about work with the International Solidarity Movement, (ISM) in Hebron in the occupied West Bank. ISM is a Palestinian lead movement aimed at supporting grassroots resistance against the occupation. In occupied Hebron we provide an international presence to prevent attacks by Israeli settlers and document Israeli military and settler violence. (more…)

Members of the Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign (BHPSC) have recently returned from a fact finding trip to Toubas, Palestine. They witnessed the impact of Israel’s occupation on the everyday lives of Palestinians in the Toubas Region and plan to set up an organization to give solidarity to the people living there.

The two Brighton residents met teachers, students, women’s groups, farmers co-ops and health care workers in Toubas who are isolated by the Israeli military occupation of the area. (more…)

WALL OF SHAME

West pushes Palestinians further into crisis

The remnants of Palestinian civil society, brutalized by the occupation and ongoing encirclement by the apartheid wall, is now reeling under the shock of the sudden removal of all US and EU aid. Their crime? To have voted in free and fair elections for a movement, Hamas, which Bush and Blair argue is ‘terrorist’.

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We are now back in Brighton, and working hard to set up the ‘Brighton - Toubas Friendship and Solidarity Group’. But keep reading, another friend of ours from Brighton will be travelling to Palestine in about a week’s time, and will posting some blogs when he gets there. (more…)

We have just heard from Fatih, our friend from Toubas, that just over a week ago one of our taxi drivers was shot dead by the Israeli Army at a Raod Clusure near Toubas. (more…)

On Sunday 30th April I had to unexpectedly cut my visit to Palestine short and return to Britain. I needed to get from Nablus, in th e North of the West Bank, to Jerusalem as quickly as possible. It took me five hours - others travelling with me did not get there at all. (more…)

Wow - Great article in Jpost

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/04/27/jpost-volunteers-settler-violence-on-the-rise/

This Saturday everybody is apprehensive about further settler attacks. Over the last three shabbats settlers have mounted more and more organised attacks against internationals and Palestians in Tel Rumeida (see http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/04/23/settlers-attack/ and http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/04/20/militant-settlers-attack-79-year-old-human-rights-worker-in-hebron/ and http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/04/16/settler-attacks-and-house-occupations-in-hebron/.) There is a large intrernational presence in response.

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This is my Journal for Monday 24th to Friday 28th April

Monday was a quiet day. Volunteers doing a lot of work preparing for the press conference on Wednesday. Press release and open letter to the police and army about rising settler violence being drafted. (more…)