Articles for Palestine

On Thursday 7 November 2013, Anas Al Atrash, a 23 year-old Palestinian, was travelling from Jericho back home to Hebron with his brother, Ismail who was driving the car. He was asleep when they reached, around 11 p.m., the Container checkpoint in the Northeast of Bethlehem (West Bank) and was woken up as the car had to break suddenly to avoid bumps. His reflex was to quickly get out of the car.

Dr Dirar Abusisi, a 42-year-old Palestinian from Gaza, was abducted on 18 February 2011 by the Ukrainian intelligences services on train from Kharkiv to Kiev and illegally rendered back to Israel where he is currently arbitrarily detained.

Alkarama was just been informed that Hazem Al Fakhouri was released on 23 June 2010. The husband of human rights activist Lama Khater, was arrested on 9 May 2010 following a summons by the Palestinian intelligence services.

After a week of incommunicado detention he was brought before the military prosecutor and accused of "resisting the government's general policy. He was remanded in custody.

Alkarama sent the case of Hazem Khader Al-Fakhouri, husband of human rights activist Lama Abdul Matalab Khater, to the United Nations special procedures, to further increase call for the West Bank intelligence services to release Hazem Al-Fakhouri's from their custody.

A statement condemning the crime committed against the relief convoy and demanding the dismantling of the blockade on Gaza and the turnover of the Israeli`s war criminals to International Justice