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NGO Action News
20 December 2013

EUROPE

• ?is organizing its next??on?9 January 2013?at the Monk café in Brussels. ABP also published on?18 December 2013?a? from?Salma Ahmed Elamassie, a professor at the Gaza French Institute.

• ?issued on?16 December 2013?a??entitled?20 Years Since Oslo: Palestinian Perspectives?featuring articles from?Nabil Shaath?(Former Acting Prime Minister of the PA),?Mouin Rabbani?(Martti Ahtisaari Centre),?Nora Lester Murad?(Founder of the Dalia Association) and many more. The full document is available?.

• ?published on?20 December 2013?a new??entitled?La Terre sainte, au temps d’un autre siècle ,?including photographs extracted from the book? by?Elias Sanbar.

• presented on?18 December 2013?an exclusive? with the Israeli historian and activist?Ilan Pappé?discussing his positions concerning the State of Israel.

• announced on?20 December 2013?that the company Staples Norway decided to stop selling SodaStream products. SodaStream’s?main production facility is located in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

• ?published on?19 December 2013?a series of? on the December 2013 Gaza Strip floods that displaced thousands of families.

• ?published on?20 December 2013?a??for its campaign on child arrests in Palestine and the complicity of the company G4S. Another video including a mix of arrests of Palestinian children by Israeli soldiers is also available?.

• ?is organizing a? on?18 January 2013?outside the Israeli Embassy in London to mark the 5th?anniversary of the end of the Israeli “Operation Cast Lead” on the Gaza Strip.

• ?posted on?20 December 2013?on its??video extracts of the recent event organized with the??(School of Oriental and African Studies) and the??featuring the eminent feminist scholar-activists?,??(University of California – Santa Cruz) and??(spoken word artist and activist).

NORTH AMERICA

• ’s national council on?15 December 2013? for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.

• ?launched on?18 December 2013?an online? calling on the Obama Administration to increase US relief and development efforts to Palestinians and to actively explore ways to end Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.

• ?issued on?17 December 2013?its? (November-December 2013) on Israeli settlements in the OPT.

• ?is continuing to mobilize for its??to support the Obama Administration’s efforts to reach a two-State solution. A video introducing the campaign can be seen?.

• ?is calling on its supporters to respond to the recent heavy rainfall that flooded areas of the Gaza Strip. Click? for more information.

• ’s council declared on?15 December 2013?its? for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

• ?published on?19 December 2013?a? focusing on?Mohammed Assaf, the Palestinian pop sensation and recent winner of the TV programme Arab Idol.

• ?presented on?19 December 2013?a new??with?Ramah Kudaimi, Membership and Outreach Coordinator for the?, about the US Campaign’s objectives, their BDS work and the Boycott SodaStream campaign.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

• ?is organizing its??from?22 to 27 December 2013. Also, the next?, a political and cultural café, will take place on?21 December 2013?at? music festival in Bethlehem’s Manger Square.

• ?published on?13 December 2013?an? with Gazan scholar?Haidar Eid?on the link between struggles against apartheid in South Africa and Palestine, following Nelson Mandela’s passing.

• ?and the??will organize their? from?8 to 17 February 2014.?Besides olive planting, the programme features introductory presentations about the current situation in Palestine and the effects of the Wall, tours in the old city of Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, as well as Ramallah, in addition to cultural events and social gatherings.

• , on?19 December 2013, released its weekly??covering the period from 12 December to 18 December 2013.

EUROPEAN UNION

• ?expressed their serious concern in a??issued on?19 December 2013?about the demolitions of 30 Palestinian-owned structures in the Jordan valley on 10 December and the displacement of 41 people, including 24 children, some of whom were uprooted for the second time this month.

UNITED NATIONS

• ?published on?19 December 2013?a new? on the impact of the winter storm in the OPT.

• ,?Robert Serry?issued a statement on?18 December 2013?on the passing of?Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj,?“an exceptional and dedicated personality, working tirelessly to improve the lives especially of his fellow Gazans, and someone who persistently stood on the side of human rights, peace, and justice”. On?16 December 2013?Mr. Serry??the Security Council about the situation in the Middle East, putting a particular emphasis on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.