Over the last week, Occupation forces have begun conducting daily incursions into the village of Jayyous, shooting at villagers with live ammunition. The village has also been directly threatened with collective punishment, with the stated intention being to âteach Jayyous a lessonâ. ***image2***Over the past month, a number of people have been injured as a […]
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Occupation takes land from al-Quds University for new apartheid road
The Occupation has started destruction for a new segregated road that connects settlements in Jerusalem with those in the east of the city. The path of the road crosses Palestinian land, in this instance leading to a seizure from al-Quds University in Beit Hanina. A large force consisting of Occupation soldiers, bulldozers and heavy machinery […]
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Destruction of Life in Gaza – Stop the ongoing Nakba against the Palestinian people
Read the statement against the siege on Gaza; a siege which denies Palestinians in the tiny walled-in Strip any form of humanity. It calls upon all that are mobilizing in occasion of the Global Day of Action on January 26 called by the WSF to take immediate and concrete steps to isolate apartheid Israel. **** […]
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Jahalin Bedouin: Nakba continues for the 4th generation
This morning, the Occupation destroyed homes that sheltered 30 people from the Jahalin Bedouin community who where living in villages located in the enclave northwest of Jerusalem. ***image2***Additionally, Occupation forces have ordered four Bedouin families to evacuate their homes and leave the area, as their homes are now part of a closed military zone in […]
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Occupation Forces threaten the village of Kharbet al-Tawheel
Occupation forces issued 18 military orders to the people in Kharbet al-Tawheel demanding a halt to all building in the area. This includes residential and agricultural constructions as well as a mosque and a building that houses a generator, necessary for providing electricity to the area. Though this has always been Palestinian land, Occupation forces […]
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Palestinian Authority forces attack anti Bush demonstrations
Between 15 and 25 people have been arrested and scores more injured after Palestinian Authority forces attacked a demonstration against the US President Bush in Ramallah with batons and pepper spray. Other demonstrators were attacked in Bethlehem. In defiance of a crackdown on demonstrations by the Palestinian Authority, at noon around 700 demonstrators attempted to […]
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Farmers forced at gunpoint from olive groves near the Apartheid Wall
***image1***Occupation forces today forced farmers from Zububa village to abandon their work in olive groves near the Apartheid Wall. As the farmers tended their olive trees at a distance of around fifty meters from the Wall, a unit of Occupation forces surrounded them and ordered them to stop work, claiming that they posed a security […]
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In Memoriam: Dr. Ahmad Maslamani, 20 December 1958 – 7 January 2008
People are protesting and fighting back â this is what we want.â ***image1***âThis morning Dr. Ahmad Maslamani, a leading national figure in the Palestinian grassroots struggle against the Occupation, passed away as a result of a heart attack. In 1985 he was a founder member of the Union of Health Work Committees, where he was […]
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Family home demolished as Occupation intensifies settlement of East Jerusalem
***image2***Occupation forces yesterday continued the destruction of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem, against the backdrop of new multimillion dollar plans for illegal Israeli settlement in the city. A wrecking crew accompanied by Occupation forces arrived at the house of Akram al-Waâywiy in East Jerusalem, claiming that the house had been built without permission. Mr al-Waâywiy and […]
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Canadian postmen deliver a message to the Occupation
Postal workers in Canada have voted to boycott the Israeli Occupation and to launch campaign to raise awareness of Israeli apartheid. The Ontario regional constitutional conference approved a boycott motion which also calls for sanctions on the apartheid state and for research to explore Canada’s links to the Occupation. One issue likely to attract the […]