Less than a week after an Occupation High Court decision to change the route of the Apartheid Wall in Jayyous, Occupation forces began uprooting trees and destroying farmland to make room for the construction of the Wall. This is part of the 277 dunums of land that will be razed for the path of the […]

Palestine: The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and its popular committees have prepared in cooperation with Palestinian grassroots organizations and NGOs once again an impressive programme of resistance, featuring almost daily protests and the Third National Olive Festival, held this year in Asira al-Qibliya, Nablus district. City and Location: at-Taybeh, Jenin district Date:November 8th Type of initiative: […]

BDS NEWSLETTER Edition: 08 – October, 2008 CORPORATE NEWS Veolia, Bilbao and European BDS On October 29/30 2008, Spanish and Basque civil society organizations invited their Palestinian counterparts, along with Israeli activists and solidarity groups from Europe and around the globe to Bilbao to discuss the core elements against which the Palestinian people are struggling, […]

Today Occupation forces prevented farmers from the village of Jayyous from reaching their olive groves. Two youths, Fadi Abdul-Karim and Mohammed Maaz, were beaten and arrested when they tried to harvest their families’ olives. ***image2***This type of aggression from the Occupation is not uncommon in Jayyous, a village northeast of Qalqilya. Last week, Occupation forces […]

This report, detailing 33 attacks on farmers in October, shows that farmers have faced an average of more than one attack per day from either settlers or soldiers. The Occupation forces were directly involved in 52% of the incidents while in the remaining cases their absence at the scene ensured that settlers could continue their […]

While settlers this Friday were apparently taking a break from their continuous attacks, Occupation forces stepped into fill the gap. In Ni’lin and al-Ma’sra people were prevented from reaching the lands affected by the Apartheid Wall. ***image2***In Ni’lin over one hundred people were blocked from reaching their olive groves close to the Wall’s path. After […]

On Friday, some 200 people from Nahalin and Bethlehem district, together with solidarity activists from all around the world gathered in the village to help the people of Nahalin to reach their olives. Collectively, they were successful in reaching their groves and harvesting the olives. ***image2***Nahalin village is located inside the Gush Etzion settlement block, […]

In the early morning of October 26 2008, Occupation forces prevented farmers from the village of Kafr Qadum from reaching their farmland. The farmers were attempting to reach their land to harvest their olives, but as has been the case throughout the olive harvest, the Occupation cited “security purposes” for its actions. ***image4***As the farmers […]