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***image2***As the olive season begins, so too do settler attacks on Palestinians attempting to harvest their produce. In Farta village, east Qalqiliya, a gang of fifty settlers, mainly from the nearby settlement of Jilad, attacked farmers, first firing bullets into the air to intimidate them and then physically attacking them. When farmers refused to stop […]

On September 28 – October 1 a seminar on the strategies of the social movements was held in Brussels to discuss the current political situation, the way forward for the social movements and global action. Social Continental Alliance (Americas), CADTM (Committee For the Abolition of Third World Debt, www.cadtm.org ), COMPA-Americas, Focus on the Global […]

***image2***New restrictions have come into force at the Tayaser checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, making movement even more difficult for Palestinians, and increasing the pressure on farmers who are already suffering hardship. Under the new restrictions, children over the age of one are not allowed to pass the Tayaser checkpoint without documentation to prove that […]

***image2***Thousands of Palestinians used makeshift ladders to climb over the apartheid wall this Friday after being barred from entering Jerusalem to attend prayers at the Dome of the Rock. Occupation forces used tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannon to try to disperse the crowds. The confrontation at the West Bank checkpoints outside […]

***image2***Farmers in Quafin, North Tulkarem, are being prevented from reaping their olives during this harvest season by Occupation forces who have closed the only gate allowing access to the land. Although 1200 villagers have been granted permits to access lands isolated behind the Apartheid Wall, the closure of gate 436, the only entry point, means […]

***image2***Occupation forces attacked the West Bank village of Budrus last week, rounding up all males and taking their footprints in an attempt to clamp down on the village’s ongoing resistance to the wall. The village was attacked at 9.00 am by twelve military vehicles. Occupation forces conducted house-to-house searches and occupied the village school, rounding […]

Activists from the Association Il Villaggio are to stage a sit-in demonstration at the Venice Biennale on 14th October, in protest at Apartheid Israel’s cynically entitled ‘Life Saver’ exhibit. (For the appeal of the Campaign click here.) The exhibit is designed to justify and legitimise Israeli crimes, and has been denounced by Palestinian groups and […]