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 […]
Category: Calls / Statements
Enough is Enough: Say no to EU policies and cooperation with Israel!
May 15th marks the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, when Israel and Zionist militias violently forced the majority of the Palestinian people out of their homes and turned them into refugees, depriving them of their basic rights and the possibility to return to their home. The Nakba never stopped, and for the past 73 years […]
Palestinians calling from Gaza to Jerusalem: All out on Saturday May 15th End the Ongoing Nakba and the Massacre in Besieged Gaza
Take to the streets on Saturday May 15th with a united demand for sanctions and arms embargo on Israel. We Palestinians are facing yet another massacre in besieged Gaza, resisting ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley and rising against oppression in our cities in Historic Palestine. Israel’s military and policing arsenal, is raining […]
Stop the Wall endorses a letter calling on the ICC to Save Sheikh Jarrah
Stop the Wall has recently joined 190 Palestinian and non-Palestinian human rights organizations in signing a letter sent by Sheikh Jarrah families to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The letter, which was sent to Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the ICC, calls on her to urgently include the looming ethnic cleansing of 28 Palestinian families […]
UN under pressure to #SaveHumsa and end Israeli apartheid
Today the UN Human Rights Council has discussed the situation in Palestine and has done so under pressure from hundreds of civil society organizations and people of conscience from across the globe. They have all appealed to #SaveHumsa, to recognize the attempts to destroy this and other Palestinian communities as policies of apartheid. They have […]
Israel Is Sharpening the Knife for mass ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem
In addition to the fierce Israeli attack on Humsa, Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah and Al-Bustan neighborhoods in East Jerusalem face imminent Israeli ethnic cleansing actions. The looming expulsion of Palestinians from there is part of the Israeli coercive measures to empty Jerusalem from its Palestinian inhabitants and replace them with illegal Jewish settlers. According […]
#Save Humsa: The United Nations Have to Act!
Since 3 November 2020, Humsa al-Fawqa, a Palestinian community in the Jordan Valley, has been targeted, raided, and demolished six times by the Israeli occupying authorities. Tell the UN Human Rights Council session on March 18 to #SaveHumsa by signing our petition jointly initiated by Stop the Wall and Al-Haq. Humsa al-Fawqa is but one example of […]
New Petition: “No Israeli killer drones for the EU”
The network World without Walls – Europe has launched a new petition to EMSA, the European Maritime Safety Agency, to ask the institution not to lease any killer drones from Elbit Systems or other military companies and not to use such drones to enforce the EU’s deadly anti-migration policies. World without Walls – Europe highlights […]
New Unions: We demand justice for killing of Palestinian worker
Israeli settlers torture and beat to death a Palestinian worker in his place of work in the illegal Israeli settlement of Gilo. The body of Abdulfatah Obayat was found in a building in Gilo last Wednesday, Dec. 16th, 2020. The Palestinian New Federation of Trade Unions consider this brutal murder one of the starkest forms of brutality Palestinian workers in Israeli business are subject to. We call on the International Labor Organization, International Trade Union Confederation and trade unions to hold Israel and its corporations accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian workers.