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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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 […]
#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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Palestinians of Silwan: The unwanted owners of the land
“My family which consists of twenty-one members has two houses in Al-Bustan, and another one in Batn AlHawa neighborhoods of Silwan in Jerusalem. In these three houses our existence is threatened with Israeli ethnic cleansing. While the Israeli authorities want to demolish our two houses in Al-Bustan under the pretext that they were built without […]
#PalestineIntifada: Youth rattling Israeli apartheid
What first began as a daily protest in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem against Israeli imminent ethnic cleansing of six Palestinian families there and Ramadan protests at Damascus Gate and Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem spontaneously spread to the rest of Historic Palestine and has grown to become a massive uprising. This is not a popular […]
Stop the Wall on Instagram!
We have just activated our Instagram account in order to ensure we can share with you on yet another channel the news from the ground and around the world as we are fighting yet another escalation of Israel’s regime of apartheid, occupation and settler colonialsim. People in Palestine are standing the ground – please join […]
#SaveSheikhJarrah: The Countdown is on for Sheikh Jarrah Ethnic Cleansing
Since the start of May, the Israeli occupation authorities have intensified its prolonged violent assault on Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Occupied Jerusalem. Amid this tremendous Israeli violence against the families of Sheikh Jarrah and their supporters from other areas in Jerusalem, Palestinians assert that the ethnic cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah is no longer […]
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 […]