***image2***District popular committees against the Apartheid Wall, in cooperation with Palestinian national political parties, organized a demonstration at Jubara military checkpoint and gate situated at the entrance of the village, south Tulkarem District. The demonstration emerged as a community protest against prolific land siege and daily gate and checkpoint closures that are strangulating villages throughout […]
Budrus: a fortress of Palestinian resistance
***image2***The Occupation forces have stepped up their threats and retaliations against Budrus, western Ramallah, in a vain attempt to force the villagers to accept the ghettos of the Wall and to renounce the struggle for their land. On Sunday, the Occupation forces stormed the village before daylight to hang statements on the doors of houses […]
The Wall in a Week – The Ghettos tighten around the Walled-in Palestinian villages
The last week in the West Bank was marked by further steps to complete the ghettoization of the Palestinian people. Life for the people and the farmers in the North is more and more confined to the limits of the ghetto walls with cultivation of their lands almost completely jeopardized. In Bethlehem, efforts to destroy […]
Campaign against Arms trade with Occupation Launches in Spain
The Spanish Solidarity Network against the Occupation of Palestine has launched a campaign against the arms trade with Apartheid Israel. It comes in response to the Spanish Ministry of Defence openly backing the Occupation, and flouting all regulations on the arms trade, by purchasing 2600 missile heads and 200 missile launchers from the Israeli consortium […]
Palestinians stand up against expulsion from Jordan Valley
***image2***The popular committee of the Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign – in coordination with Palestinian NGOs – mobilized this week holding a protest at Bardala terminal in the north of the Jordan Valley. The northern Jordan Valley is closed to all Palestinian ânon-residentsâ. Bardala terminal which the farmers use to sell their crops to the 1948 […]
Divestment Conference in US promises surge of campus Activism
A major divestment conference in the US has attracted 376 activists. Representing 90 different campuses and solidarity organizations, the campaigners gathered together on the weekend of February the 17th to strategize around divestment initiatives against Israeli Apartheid. The diverse group spent two days discussing ways to project the story of Palestinian dispossession, life under military […]
The Trail of Violence and Destruction: Large scale demolition in East Qalqiliya
***image2***A children’s playground and a number of Palestinian homes were demolished on Wednesday the 22nd of February as Occupation Forces went on the rampage throughout East Qalqiliya. At 9 am Occupation bulldozers and soldiers entered the village and imposed a curfew as they razed, flattened and destroyed. Many other homes and buildings are to be […]
Palestine takes centre stage at World Social Forum
At the sixth meeting of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Caracas (24th -29th of January 2006), Palestinians struggling in their homeland joined with Palestinians from the Diaspora to ensure their message and calls played a central role in the gathering. The WSF is the biggest gathering of global social movements, anti-war and anti-globalization groups. […]
Land Confiscations Hit Village of Tura
Occupation Forces have delivered fresh confiscation orders in the village of Tura (West Jenin) for the construction of a new military base. Aiming to control the lives of Palestinians, launch attacks on their communities and steal their lands, the military base will be built on Palestinian land already isolated by the Apartheid Wall, sealing their […]
“Israeli Apartheid Week” held in several universities across UK and Canada
Coinciding with the 30th Anniversary of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, the âIsraeli Apartheid Week 2006â was held simultaneously in Oxford and several Canadian cities â Toronto, Montreal, and Kitchener-Waterloo. The initiatives ran from the 13th â17th February and featured speeches, film screenings, lectures, cultural events and […]