by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, says countries who advocate women’s rights must ‘walk the talk’, applying their principles consistently and without selective advocacy by avoiding arms transfers that facilitate the killing of...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Over a dozen Israeli prison facilities have been transformed into a network of camps “focused on the mistreatment of detainees” since the onset of Israel’s war on Gaza, Israeli rights group B’Tselem said in a new report. “Welcome to Hell” includes testimonies from 55...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Israel’s Security Cabinet decided on Sunday to continue to detain the bodies of seven Palestinian citizens of Israel so that they can be used as bargaining chips in negotiations that may lead to an agreement and a prisoner exchange deal. The seven are Walid Daqqa, 62,...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Organisers of the national pro-Palestine protests in London have set out their concerns about increasingly “heavy-handed” policing and attempts by the Metropolitan Police to restrict supporters marching this Saturday in the capital. The solidarity movement has made...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Students at Australia’s University of Queensland voted on Wednesday to cut ties with weapons manufacturers and divest from Israel in a meeting attended by 1,500 people. According to Green Left, the Student General Meeting (SGM), organised by Students for...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Portland City Council in Maine has voted unanimously to divest from companies doing business with Israel, as the occupation state’s near 11-month military offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza has killed 41,000 Palestinians and wounded 95,000 others. The...
