UPDATES ON KATE AND KELLY Yesterday was the deadline for the state to respond to Kate Raphael Bender's appeal of deportation, but she has heard nothing. In the coming days she expects to find out if and when there will be a hearing.
Kelly Minio-Paleullo was deported on Friday morning after deciding not to fight her deportation order in the Israeli court system.
SPANISH ACTIVIST DENIED ENTRY Alberto Arce, a journalist and activist from Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) was denied entry after being declared a "security threat" at Ben Gurion International Airport Wednesday, December 22. Alberto Arce works with the Xarxa d'Enllaç amb Palestina, (Palestinian Net) a Catalan movement promoting cooperation among organizations and individuals to work for Palestinian rights. Last summer he joined ISM's Freedom Summer Campaign and participated in the March against the Wall. His documentary film on ISM's work in Nablus has been selected and screened in a number of Spanish Film Festivals.
ISRAEL TARGETS HUMANITARIAN WORKERS (from 12/20/04) With the arrests of Kate Raphael Bender and Kelly Minio-Paleullo, Israel continues it's policy of restricting humanitarian workers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Both women sit in the Hadera detention center awaiting deportation.
In early November Charlotte Carson, an activist from Ireland, was arrested by plainclothes officers while participating in a nonviolent demonstration in the village of Kafr Thulth near Qalqilya. She too was held at Hadera before being deported.
Throughout this year's Freedom Summer campaign international humanitarian activists were harassed at entry points to Israel. Many were refused entry because of their commitment to support nonviolent Palestinian resistance to the continuing military occupation. It has become clear that Israel maintains a policy of refusing entry to international citizens based on their political beliefs.
The Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory, requires states maintaining a military occupation to facilitate the travel of humanitarian workers to areas under that occupation. Clearly, the arrests and deportations of these and other internationals violate that legal responsibility.
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