“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 […]
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#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 […]
March 8th: Take inspiration from the strength and struggle of the women in Humsa
“Women have been a footnote in a male-defined system. And if women are the footnote, then Aboriginal women are the footnote to the footnote.” This statement made by Mohawk author Patricia Monture holds very true to the situation of Palestinian women. The fact that Palestinian women are the footnote to the footnote is due to […]
#SaveHumsa: Steadfast we call for solidarity
From the Bedouin community of Humsa, representatives of popular committees across the West Bank have sent a call to rights and solidarity groups around the world. They urge more pressure on the Israeli occupation to stop the imminent ethnic cleansing of Humsa. Yesterday, representatives of the Stop the Wall Campaign and popular committees from across […]
Humsa: Israel forces EU to hand over humanitarian aid
On February 16th, representatives of the EU diplomatic missions in the Occupied Palestinian territories visited Humsa to provide them with tents for the residents. Yet, Israeli military stopped the officials and confiscated the shelters. Since November 2020, the Bedouin community of Humsa (Khirbet Hamsa al-Foqa), Northern Jordan Valley has been under a brutal demolition campaign […]
Resisting Israeli apartheid, Humsa residents remain on their village remains
Yesterday, tens of armed Israeli soldiers raided the Bedouin community of Humsa, Northern Jordan Valley. This raid has been part of a series of violent raids committed since the beginning of 2021 and even before. In previous raids the entire community was razed to the ground four times in three months. The Israeli occupation seeks […]
Abu Jamal is free, but not safe yet!
At dawn on Friday, January 8th, armed Israeli soldiers raided the house of Palestinian farmer and human rights defender Khaled Daraghmeh (Abu Jamal), from the village of al-Luban al-Sharqiyya, southern Nablus district. After desperate attempts by his wife to stop the soldiers, who brutally assaulted her, they arrested Abu Jamal and took him to an […]