On September 3rd, Labour for Palestine, a network of rank and file activists involved in promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israeli Apartheid across Canadian unions marched in the annual Labour Day parade. To mark the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Palestinian artist Naji El-Ali (creator of the character Handala) organizers build […]

The people of Al-Walaja are insisting that they will continue their resistance to the Apartheid Wall, which is currently under construction on their lands. They will demonstrate next Friday 7 September at twelve o’clock, despite the Occupation’s clampdown on their protest. ***image2***On 24 August Occupation forces cracked down on Al-Walaja, closing the entrance to the […]

Occupation forces on the morning of 23rd of August razed the Bedouin village of Humsa close to Haddidiya for the second time in two weeks. At around 8.00 am, ten occupation vehicles and a bulldozer rolled into the village. They demolished three barns owned by Abdullah Hussein Bsharat, along with three houses belonging to his […]

***image2***On Wednesday 15th of August, workers and huge armor plated bulldozers showed up in the tiny village of Al Walaja, located a few kilometers away from the center of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. In the past Al Walaja has been heavily targeted by the Occupation’s house demolition campaign: more than seventeen homes and […]

On August 13 between 9 and 10 am, the demolition of the Bedouin village of al-Hadidiya in the Jordan Valley began. Two homes, belonging to Abdullah Hafez Yusuf Bani Odeh and Abdullah Hussein Bisharat, were destroyed along with nearby animal enclosures. However, the villagers remain defiant in the face of this latest onslaught by the […]

***image2***The first bricks have been laid for a new school for the Palestinian village of Fasayil in the Jordan Valley, at the heart of the West Bank. The villagers hope to provide an education for the young people of the village, but the project is also a statement of defiance. Construction work requires a permit […]

***image2***Farmers from the village of Anin, northwest Jenin district, report that Occupation forces are confiscating the permits of farmers trying to access their isolated lands through the one gate in the Apartheid Wall. The Occupation forces claim that some farmers are sleeping on their land overnight. This new measure, which has been in force for […]

Ahmad Abdallah Hafeth Bani Odeh, from al-Hadidiye, was stopped this morning with his tractor and water tank at the al-Hamra checkpoint, on the orders of the Occupation authorities. ***image2***Ahmad has had his tractor confiscated, and told that it will not not been returned until he leaves his land and property in al-Hadidiye. Ahmad had intended […]