30 August 2015. Sunday protest in Beit Jala was violently repressed by the Israeli Occupation Forces with tear gas and sound bombs, dispersing the demonstrators and arresting two Palestinians. Hundreds of protesters gathered around 11:00 a.m. for the Sunday demonstration in Bir 'Ona, a neighborhood of the city of Beit Jala which is undergoing operations […]
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Solidarity to May First/People Link
May First/People Link – an amazing US-Mexican organization providing many organizations, including Stop the Wall and other Palestinian organizations, with web and communication hosting and support – is under attack, AGAIN. May First has always defended the communications of its member organizations with utmost dedication and determination, including when Palestinian organizations have been under […]
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Cremisan: People tear down the gates of the Wall
Hundreds of people gathered for the mass mobilization Sunday morning. The protest tore down one of the gates of the Israeli apartheid infrastructure that segregates the Palestinian people from their lands and from each other. The Popular Committee of Beit Jala organized the protest together with Stop the Wall Campaign, The Popular Struggle Coordinating […]
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Join the protest: Stop the Wall in Beit Jala
The Popular committee of Beit Jala together with the Stop the Wall Campaign, the Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee and the Palestinian National Forces call for a mass protest against the construction of the Apartheid Wall, land grab and destruction of property in Cremisan Valley. The demonstration will take place on Sunday 23rd August at 11:00 […]
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Israeli Army Destroys Samra School in the Jordan Valley
At 6.30am on August 20th 2015, the Israeli army entered Khirbeit Samra in the north of the Jordan Valley with ten military jeeps and two bulldozers and destroyed Samra School. The school was built by Jordan Valley Solidarity and international volunteers, in co-operation with local Palestinians, in 2013/14 to provide Khirbeit Samra and the surrounding […]
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BNC: Join us – Olympics without Apartheid!
Like our Facebook page “Olympics without Apartheid” here! See the Stop the Wall Factsheet Ban ISDS! – Olympics without Apartheid here! Israeli military companies, all of which are deeply involved in Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinian people, among others, see the Olympic Games as an opportunity for profit and a means to export their “field-tested” expertise […]
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Join: People resist the Wall in Cremisan Valley
Early Monday morning, August 17, the Israeli military with its bulldozers stormed the area of Bir Uona archeological site, west of Beit Jala in Bethlehem governorate, and razed 25-30 dunums of land and uprooted about 45 olive trees, some of the hundreds of years old. Join the Solidarity Tent set up to challenge the land […]
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Israeli Army attacks Fasayal Village
At 6am on Tuesday 18th of August the Israeli Army invaded and attacked Fasayal village in the Jordan Valley. Twenty Israeli military jeeps accompanied by six bulldozers demolished seven houses as well as cutting electricity cables, destroying water tanks and animal shelters belonging to Palestinian residents. The first house demolished belonged to Mahmoud Ibrahim Abu […]
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House demolitions in Jiftlik and Khirbet Humsa
On Tuesday 11th August 2015 Jordan Valley Solidarity activists witnessed Israeli house demolitions in two villages of the Jordan Valley: Al Jiftlik and Khirbet Humsa. Israeli soldiers with two bulldozers and around fifteen Jeeps arrived in Al Jiftlik at 7am and demolished two houses. The owners of the houses, Mahmoud Mitaheb and his brother Abdallah […]
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Boycott in a captive economy…
Koos Mohammed interviewed among others Mazen al Azzeh, an activist in the Stop the Wall Campaign from Bethlehem district, about the uphill task of building a boycott of Israeli goods in a condition of completely captive market, such as the West Bank and Gaza. Jerusalem – The global boycott movement has gained strong momentum since […]