Kate Raphael talks about her arrest filming brutality of border police against nonviolent Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank, her challenge to Israel's deportation order, and Israeli apartheid (45min). Fatima of the International Women's Peace Service discusses IWPS's mission in Palestine and the reality & brutality of the occupation (16 min).
Kate Raphael, of Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism/Quit Palestine and the International Women's Peace Service was arrested on Dec 14 while filming during a protest in the Occupied West Bank village of Bil'in. She has appealed her deportation order on the grounds that Israel cannot deport her for taking action to enforce the ruling of the International Court of Justice against the Apartheid Wall. Kate has requested that those who wish to support her contact the nearest Israeli Consulate or Embassy and ask them to stop deporting international humanitarian workers and to dismantle the Apartheid Wall. Contact information for the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco: 456 Montgomery Street Suite 2100, 92104. (415) 844-7500 (phone) (415) 844-7555 (fax).
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The interview with Fatima of the International Women's Peace Service in Haris/Salfit/Occupied West Bank was conducted by telephone Dec 25/26. The interview with Kate Raphael in Tsohar Detention Facility, southern Israel, was conducted by telephone Dec 26/27.
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