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I am making this edit request to add several updates and clarifications. Thanks!

PLEASE CHANGE: Issa Amro (Arabic: عيسى عمرو; April 13, 1980) is a Palestinian activist based in Hebron, West Bank. TO: Issa Amro (Arabic: عيسى عمرو; born April 13, 1980) is a Palestinian human rights defender based in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Here is a source for human rights defender: https://assets.nationbuilder.com/hebronfreedomfund/pages/16/attachments/original/1727882995/EU-representative-letter-Issa-Amro.pdf?1727882995 Here is the source for Israeli occupied Hebron where Issa lives: https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/OCHAHEBRONRPT_240419.pdf

PLEASE CHANGE: He is the co-founder and former coordinator (2007–2018) of the grassroots group Youth Against Settlements. TO: He is a co-founder of the Palestinian grassroots organization Youth Against Settlements, a group that advocates nonviolent direct action and documents human rights violations in Hebron. Source for Youth Against Settlements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_Against_Settlements

AFTER THE SENTENCE “He is a co-founder of the Palestinian grassroots organization Youth Against Settlements, a group that advocates nonviolent direct action and documents human rights violations in Hebron.” please ADD: Amro is formally recognized as a Human Rights Defender by the European Union. https://assets.nationbuilder.com/hebronfreedomfund/pages/16/attachments/original/1727882995/EU-representative-letter-Issa-Amro.pdf?1727882995

FOLLOWING THIS SENTENCE: “In 2010, he was declared "human rights defender of the year in Palestine" by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.” PLEASE ADD: Amro is the recipient of the 2024 Right Livelihood Award and the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. Source for Right Livelihood: https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/issa-amro-youth-against-settlements/ AND source for Franco-German prize: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-12/ty-article-magazine/.premium/human-rights-prize-awarded-to-israeli-in-tel-aviv-palestinian-at-idf-checkpoint/00000193-bb5d-da67-abff-fbfd7add0000

PLEASE CHANGE THIS SENTENCE: “At present,[when?] Amro is being indicted by the Israeli military court with 18 charges against him.” TO: In 2016, Amro was indicted in an Israeli military court on 18 charges related to his nonviolent activism in Hebron, but by January 2021 the court had dropped most of the charges. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/11/israel-un-experts-condemn-attacks-against-human-rights-defender-issa-amro

PLEASE CREATE A SUBSECTION UNDER THE ACTIVISM SECTION CALLED: "House and Community Center"

UNDER "House and Community Center" PLEASE ADD: The building that now serves as Issa Amro’s residence belongs to a Palestinian family whose house was taken over by the Israeli army in around 2001. The house is located directly next to an Israeli settlement and army base in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. Israeli settlers began to arrive at the house in 2007, and Amro rented the house from the original owners in response. After a series of arrests combined with lawsuits, Amro gained the right to live in the house and rehabilitated the house. It now serves as his home and the headquarters of Amro’s organization, Youth Against Settlements. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/magazine/issa-amro-palestinian-nonviolent-activist.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok0.oCO5.ax7xQR3VZyqL&smid=url-share

UNDER THE SUBSECTION "2015-present", AFTER THE SENTENCE “Instead, he blamed the normalization of anti-Palestinian hatred within the Israeli military, and Benjamin Netanyahu for "pulling verbal triggers of incitement" and denying freedom for Palestinians with his politics.[28]” and before the sentence, “In October 2024, Amro and YAS were distinguished with the Swedish Right Livelihood Award…” PLEASE ADD: After the expulsion of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) observer group from Hebron in 2019, Amro founded an initiative to provide a protective presence in their place. https://www.972mag.com/hebron-palestinians-tiph-settler-violence/ In 2021, Amro won a lawsuit against Israeli settler Anat Cohen for assaulting him while monitoring a Palestinian school. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2021-04-19/ty-article-opinion/.highlight/a-resounding-slap-in-the-courtroom/0000017f-dbba-db5a-a57f-dbfa67c10000 In 2024, Amro won a defamation lawsuit against Israeli right-wing NGO Ad Kan, which was made to apologize to him for saying he lived in a terrorist’s home. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-02-27/ty-article/.premium/rightist-ngo-to-apologize-to-palestinian-activist-for-saying-he-lived-in-terrorists-home/0000018d-e7be-d05b-addd-e7bfe4190000 PLEASE CHANGE the subsection title “Harassment and arrests” TO: Harassment, Arrests and Legal Proceedings

PLEASE REPLACE the subsection "Trial" WITH: "Trial in Israeli military court"

At the end of the “Trial in Israeli military court” section, PLEASE ADD:

Amro's case was highlighted in Amnesty International's Write for Rights campaign of 2017 alongside lawyer Farid al-Atrash.https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/2017-10/W4R%20booklet%202017%20FINAL%20LORES.pdf Write for Rights 2017, Amnesty International, 2017.

Amnesty deemed the charges "baseless" and "politically motivated" and reiterated their call for Israeli authorities to drop the charges in 2021 prior to the verdict. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/11/israel-opt-drop-baseless-charges-against-palestinian-human-rights-defender/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2021/01/israelopt-drop-politically-motivated-charges-against-palestinian-human-rights-activist-issa-amro/

In February 2021, the European Union Representative issued a statement in agreement with EU Heads of Mission in Jerusalem and the West Bank: "The EU and EU Member States call on the Israeli and Palestinian authorities to drop the politically motivated charges against Issa Amro." https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/palestine-occupied-palestinian-territory-west-bank-and-gaza-strip/local-eu-statement-charges-against-palestinian-human-rights-defender-issa-amro_en

In January 2021, Amro was convicted on six charges, including three counts related to participating in a demonstration without a permit. In response to the conviction, UN Special Rapporteurs issued a statement calling the conviction contrary to international human rights law and “part of a pattern where Israeli military law is used to restrict and penalise Palestinians for exercising their inviolable political and civil rights.” https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/01/israels-conviction-human-rights-defender-shows-disdain-international?LangID=E&NewsID=26688

In response to the conviction, the EU issued a statement calling on Israel to drop the “politically motivated” charges against Amro. https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/palestine-occupied-palestinian-territory-west-bank-and-gaza-strip/local-eu-statement-charges-against-palestinian-human-rights-defender-issa-amro_en

Upon appeal, in June 2023 Amro’s conviction was reduced to four charges and his sentence reduced. https://mailchi.mp/93b351850e9d/issa-amro-appeal-verdict?e=d878ced346

Amro dramatized his trial in the interactive documentary play “How To Make A Revolution,” co-written with playwright Einat Weizman. A reading of the play took place in New York, and the play was set to stage in Jaffa Theater in Tel Aviv. https://www.jaffatheatre.org.il/en/shows/how-to-make-a-revolution/#:~:text=Einat%20Weitzman's%20new%20documentary%20play,side%20of%20the%20occupying%20state.

https://www.theinvisibledog.org/all/2023/1/25/how-to-make-a-revolution-einat-weizman-and-issa-amro

12) UNDER THE “Arrest by the Palestinian Authority” SECTION, immediately following this sentence: “On September 9, 2017, he was released on bail,[54] following an outpouring of protests to the PA by human rights NGOs and others.”

PLEASE ADD:

After being released, Amro met Bernie Sanders and members of Congress in Washington DC.[13] In March, 2019, Amnesty International demanded that the Palestinian authorities drop all charges against him, adding "It is disgraceful that Issa Amro is facing a prison term simply for expressing his views promoting human rights online."[12] The EU called on Palestinian authorities to drop the “politically motivated” charges against Amro. https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/palestine-occupied-palestinian-territory-west-bank-and-gaza-strip/local-eu-statement-charges-against-palestinian-human-rights-defender-issa-amro_en

13) BEFORE THE SENTENCE “While being interviewed by Lawrence Wright in Hebron on February 13, 2023, Amro was grabbed by the neck and thrown to the ground by an IDF soldier.[56] The soldier was jailed by Israeli authorities for ten days for the assault.[56]

PLEASE ADD THE SUBSECTION:

=== Later Incidents (2023-present) ===

14) AFTER THE SENTENCE “While being interviewed by Lawrence Wright in Hebron on February 13, 2023, Amro was grabbed by the neck and thrown to the ground by an IDF soldier.[56] The soldier was jailed by Israeli authorities for ten days for the assault.[56]”

PLEASE ADD:

In March, 2023, Amro testified to the UN about the humanitarian and political situation in Hebron and the West Bank, as well as his own experiences from Israeli authorities, settlers, and Palestinian authorities. https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1b/k1bdjafpxn On October 7th, 2023, Amro reported being abducted and tortured by a group of Israeli soldiers and settlers. He reported being blindfolded, gagged, and beaten for 10 hours. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/magazine/issa-amro-palestinian-nonviolent-activist.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok0.oCO5.ax7xQR3VZyqL&smid=url-share On October 26th, Israeli security forces expelled Amro from his house after hosting an Australian journalist. https://2021-2025.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/israel-west-bank-and-gaza/west-bank-and-gaza/ Issa Amro appeared in Louis Theroux's 2025 documentary The Settlers, where he guided Theroux around the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Amro stated that Israeli soldiers and settlers had raided his home in the aftermath, as part of what he believes was retaliation for his participation in the documentary.[31] 15) IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THIS SENTENCE: “Issa Amro appeared in Louis Theroux's 2025 documentary The Settlers, where he guided Theroux around the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Amro stated that Israeli soldiers and settlers had raided his home in the aftermath, as part of what he believes was retaliation for his participation in the documentary.[31]”

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SUBSECTION HEADER:

International Recognition and Advocacy

AND ADD THIS TEXT UNDER THIS SUBSECTION: Amro became part of B'Tselem and won the One World Media award in 2009 for the "Shooting Back" camera project, which he coordinated in Hebron. The project distributed cameras to Palestinians for the purpose of documenting human rights violations by Israeli soldiers and settlers.[4][17][18] In 2008, B'Tselem reported an occasion where Amro himself was prevented from documenting Israeli settler disturbances, after which he was then beaten and arrested by Israeli military.[19] In 2010, Amro was declared “human rights defender of the year in Palestine" by the UN Office of the High Commissioner. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/whos-afraid-of-nonviolence.html In 2013, Amro was formally recognized as a Human Rights Defender by the European Union, a status reaffirmed in 2016 during his trial in an Israeli military court. https://assets.nationbuilder.com/hebronfreedomfund/pages/16/attachments/original/1727882995/EU-representative-letter-Issa-Amro.pdf?1727882995 In 2021, Amro met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging him to end arms sales to Israel. https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2021-05-25/ty-article/.premium/prominent-palestinian-activist-meets-with-blinken-urges-him-to-halt-israeli-arms-sale/0000017f-e25a-d804-ad7f-f3faced40000 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/05/27/palestinian-activist-antony-bliken-issa-amro-robertson-pkg-intl-hnk-vpx.cnn In 2024, Amro expressed disappointment with the U.S. decision to refrain from sanctioning Israeli battalions accused of “gross human rights violations” and stated that the U.S. was not doing the “minimum” of achieving peace between Palestinians and Israelis. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-sanction-israeli-military-units-accused-human-rights/story?id=109651562 In October 2024, Amro and YAS were distinguished with the Swedish Right Livelihood Award, "for their steadfast nonviolent resistance to Israel’s illegal occupation, promoting Palestinian civic action through peaceful means."[29] In December 2024, the French and German governments jointly awarded him the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. Because Israeli soldiers denied the French and German representatives entry into Hebron, he accepted the award on a road outside an Israeli Defense Forces checkpoint.[30] In 2025, Amro was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. https://icahd.org/2025/02/28/jeff-halper-issa-amro-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/

16) ADD THE SUBSECTION:

Awards and recognition

AND ADD THIS TEXT UNDER THIS SUBSECTION:

2009 One World Media Award.

http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20090623 B'Tselem’s video camera distribution project wins British One World Media award] B'Tselem. June 23, 2009.

2010 “Human rights defender of the year in Palestine” from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
2013 Formal recognition as Human Rights Defender by the European Union, reaffirmed in 2016.https://assets.nationbuilder.com/hebronfreedomfund/pages/16/attachments/original/1727882995/EU-representative-letter-Issa-Amro.pdf?1727882995 December 5, 2016

2023 Global Advocacy Award from the Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights and Harvard Human Rights Journal.https://clinics.law.harvard.edu/advocates/2023/04/23/global-advocacy-award-announcement/%7Ctitle=Global Advocacy Award Announcement|website=Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights|access-date=13 September 2024
2024 TRT World Award.^{[citation needed]}
2025 Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize https://icahd.org/2025/02/28/jeff-halper-issa-amro-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/
TIME Magazine 100 Next https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318824/issa-amro/

17) ADD TO EXTERNAL LINKS SECTION:

https://forward.com/authors/issa-Amro/ The Forward columns (2017-2021)

NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/magazine/issa-amro-palestinian-nonviolent-activist.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok0.oCO5.ax7xQR3VZyqL&smid=url-share

Testimony to the UN https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1b/k1bdjafpxn