This week, Occupation Forces have confiscated 53 dunums of land from the villages of Yatta, Dhahriya and Sammu to continue the isolation of these villages in the southern Hebron district. The aim of the Occupation in this area is to fortify the Jewish-only settlement road #60 with a wall on either side. This wall will […]
In Flanders, Belgium, the Flemish Palestine Solidarity Committee has stepped up its boycott campaign of Israeli goods. At the beginning of December, a coordinated action to remove Israeli goods from the shelves grabbed the attention of consumers and supermarket directors in some of the largest Flemish cities. Belgium is one of Israel’s biggest trading partners […]
Christmas celebrations around the world were this year used by solidarity activists to remind the public of the dramatic and ongoing ghettoization of Bethlehem and the rest of Palestine. Journalists wrote countless features describing the imprisonment of Palestinians in Bethlehem, and Church leaders used their Christmas sermons and services to call for justice for the […]
This week the occupation bulldozers started uprooting lands in the South of Jaba`. The village is situated north of what will become the border between the Bethlehem ghetto and the Hebron ghetto, which will be isolated from one another by the Wall and the Jewish-only road. In the last two days some 500 olive trees […]
On Monday, 12th of December, the Coalition for Just Peace in Palestine (CJPP) in Montreal held a press conference to launch its Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the Occupation and Israeli Apartheid and for the respect of international law. Responding to the Palestinian call to Isolate Israel, the CJPP had worked for […]
The Occupation nears closer to complete ghettoization of Palestinians. This week, land confiscation and house demolitions have continued to destroy Palestinian homes and livelihoods while expansion of the settlements has increased to swallow and colonize Palestinian lands. Judaization of Palestine does not stop even in front of centuries-old Palestinian graveyards. Israeli Apartheid attempts to annihilate […]
High school students of Kifl Hares, in the Salfit district, have formed a youth group within their villages to strengthen popular resistance against the Apartheid Wall and the ghettoization of the Palestinian people. On Wednesday, December 14th, the 14- to 16-year old students of the village organized a public meeting with the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign. […]
In the Jordan Valley, no day passes without Occupation aggression against the Palestinian farmers, workers and residents in the area. During the last few months, the Occupation has stepped up measures to ethnically cleanse the area. Palestinians in Jordan Valley are facing serious threats to their lives and livelihoods, leaving them with no other choice […]
The regional council of the Sør-Trøndelag in Norway has passed a motion calling for a comprehensive boycott on Israeli goods to be followed up with an awareness raising campaign across the region. Sør-Trøndelag has a population of 270,000 out of Norwayâs 4.6 million. Trondheim, Norway`s third largest city, forms part of the region and will […]
This week has been marked by extensive land confiscation and isolation, from Tamoun in the northern Jordan Valley to Hebron in the South. House demolitions are taking place in the northwestern areas to completely depopulate areas isolated by the Wall and to create further space for settlement expansion. In Jerusalem, a sophisticated scheme of ghettoization […]
