Al Aqsa mosque: clashes and context | Mass protest

In This Issue

Al Aqsa mosque: clashes and context | Hebron: End closure of Shuhada Street! | Youth against French-Israeli drones deal | Israeli Apartheid Week | Global BDS Day of Action | World Social Forum Free Palestine

Feature

Al Aqsa - "The banner of our struggle for justice, freedom and equality"
News

Yet another martyr , Talat Ramia, 23 years old, killed by the Israeli military with live rounds on his chest last Friday. The protest during which he was killed happened in ar Ram, a suburb of Jerusalem, in reaction to Israel’s threats against the al Aqsa mosque . The latest escalation came as a result of inflammatory statements from Israeli hard-liners threatening to destroy the mosque and build in its place a Jewish Temple. Ibrahim, an eyewitness to the events in Al Aqsa on Friday explains how the events unfolded ...
http://www.stopthewall.org/2012/02/26/al-aqsa-banner-our-struggle-justice-freedom-and-equality

Mass protest: "Open Shuhada Street and lift the siege from the heart of Hebron"
News

In the mass protest in Hebron this Friday, Palestinian member of Knesset Mohammed Baraka was injured in his right leg and dozens of other Palestinians suffered further injuries as the occupation forces were shooting tear gas and sound bombs into the crowd to disperse the demonstration. The protest was called by the political forces in the governorate of Hebron, the Stop the Wall Campaign and the Committee for the defense of Hebron in the eighteenth anniversary of the massacre in the Ibrahimi Mosque.
http://www.stopthewall.org/2012/02/25/mass-protest-open-shuhada-street-and-lift-siege-heart-hebron

Youth Movement
Palestinian youth to France: “Stop financing the killing of our people”
Thursday February 2, 2012
Two protests have been held today in Palestine to protest a French-Israeli military deal. A wide variety of youth organizations has organized the protests to oppose the French acquisition of $500 million worth of drones from Israeli Airspace Indistries.
Some 30 people gathered in Jerusalem in front of the French consulate and only hours later some 50 people protested in Ramallah in front of the French cultural center.
http://www.stopthewall.org/2012/02/02/palestinian-youth-france-stop-financing-killing-our-people

Solidarity Actions

Occupied Palestine is part of every free heartbeat in this world and her cause continues to inspire solidarity across the globe. The World Social Forum Free Palestine is an expression of the human instinct to unite for justice and freedom and an echo of the World Social Forum’s opposition to neo-liberal hegemony, colonialism, and racism through struggles for social, political and economic alternatives to promote justice, equality, and the sovereignty of peoples...

Land Day, March 30 - Global BDS Action Day
Commemorating Land Day, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) invites people of conscience around the world to unite for a BDS Global Day of Action on 30 March 2012 in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom, justice and equality and for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it fully complies with its obligations under international law.

Let’s showcase our BDS successes through creative actions and media efforts and mobilize for the World Social Forum Free Palestine in November 2012.

http://www.bdsmovement.net/2012/bds-global-day-action-201-8667#.T0uWVvE0jaY

For more info see:

www.apartheidweek.org

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi - Israeli Apartheid Week

Friday February 24, 2012
Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is a PhD candidate and the Chairperson of the Post Graduate Association at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ndlozi is a member of the South African Students Congress (SASCO) and a board member of BDS South Africa. Mbuyiseni is active in campaigning on both domestic and international issues, including worker rights, student issues and Palestine solidarity. He recently attended the South African session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, a people's tribunal that found Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid under international law...
http://www.stopthewall.org/mbuyiseni-ndlozi-israeli-apartheid-week

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