The first day of the high-level General Debate of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) kicks off today. It comes amidst an intensified Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign of Palestinians in Jerusalem and other parts of Palestine. To bring to light the urgency of taking concrete steps by the United Nations to hold Israel accountable for […]
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#Sabra_Shatila_Massacre: The dead want to rest in peace
39 years passed after Israel, in cooperation with the Lebanese phalanges, committed the massacre of Sabra and Shatila. We remember the horrific crime with the same intensity of pain and sorrow as if it has just happened as justice has been done to the thousands of women, men and children who were slaughtered with cold […]
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Despite torture, Palestinian prisoners continue to humiliate Israel
Five days after searching for the six escaped Palestinian prisoners, the Israeli occupation arrested four of them on September 10th and 11th. The re-arrested prisoners Mohammed Ardah (39), Mahmoud Ardah (46), Zakariya Zubaidi (46), and Yaqoub Qadri (49) have been subject to severe torture by Israeli interrogators, since the first moment of arrest. Only today […]
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Pregnant Palestinian prisoner released following international pressure!
Update, Friday, September, 3: Pregnant Palestinian prisoner Anhar Al-Deek, 25, was released from Israeli jails last night, September 2nd. Her release is on conditions to remain under house arrest and a financial bail of USD12, 500. Please watch a video showing the moment when Anhar was released here. The release of Anhar follows an international […]
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#SaveSilwan – August 15 another 16 homes will be up for demolitions
UPDATE: Continued pressure works – now we need more! Israeli courts have stayed demolition orders for all but 16 homes in the collective lawsuit in #Silwan. The court’s decision to delay demolition of the remaining homes until February 2022 aims to fragment grief and dilute resistance to expulsion. None of the 97 homes under demolition […]
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August 2nd: #RaiseYourVoice for Sheikh Jarrah
Israel’s Supreme Court is set to decide on the imminent forcible ethnic displacement of Al-Askafi, Al-Ja’ouni, Al-Qasem and Al-Kurd families from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on August 2nd. As we are well aware that Israeli courts are nothing more than institutions to enforce and consolidate apartheid and settler colonial policies against our people, […]
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#SaveJerusalem: We Can’t Stop Now!
Palestinian communities living in Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah and the Old City face increasingly brutal Israeli practices of ethnic cleansing and its discriminatory legal system. Stop the Wall has released a new web-page highlighting how the Israeli ethnic cleansing scheme in Jerusalem impacts the families living in these areas and how people’s power to resist Israeli […]
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Anti-PA protests met with more violence
Yesterday, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Hebron, Ramallah and Bethlehem calling for the overthrow of the Palestinian Authority and the cancelation of the Oslo Accords signed with Israel in 1993, including the security coordination with the Israeli military. These protests erupted after the brutal murder of political activist Nizar Banat by some […]
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Statement: Stop the Wall calls for stopping the PA escalated oppression
On Thursday, 24 June, 2021, some two dozen officers of the Palestinian Authority [PA] broke into the home of Nizar Banat, a candidate of the cancelled parliamentary elections, an advocate of free speech, and an outspoken critic of the PA’s corruption and security coordination with the Israeli occupation. According to members of Banat’s family, the […]
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Beita: A fortress of sumud in the face of Israeli land seizure and brutality
Since months, Palestinians across Historic Palestine have been rising up against decades of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid. In the village of Beita, south of Nablus city, Palestinians have not only been protesting decades of Israeli oppression, but also intensified Israeli pillaging of their land. The ongoing protests since over a month come as a […]