Since yesterday night, over 500 people are gathered at the village of Khan al Ahmar to support the community in the moment the Israeli deadline for demolition expired. Khan al Ahmar and the Palestinian people in solidarity are counting on international support. Three more tents had to be collectively erected to host the crowd that […]
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#KhanalAhmar: Continued protests show strength
Over 200 people gathered at Khan al Ahmar to let Israeli military know that collective struggle will defend the community from any demolitions Israel is planning. Occupation forces closed the access roads to Khan al Ahmar, nevertheless many went marching on foot to join the protest. Please continue to mobilize to defend #KhanalAhmar: Call your […]
Khan al Ahmar warns Israeli military about war crimes
Never losing their sense of irony, even during daily struggle, Palestinian grassroots activists yesterday responded to Israel's leaflets ordering the people of Khan al Ahmar to destroy their own homes by distributing their own leaflets to the soldiers of Beit El military settlement. The leaflet alerted all those involved in or complicit with the destruction […]
#KhanalAhmar: Israel orders people to destroy their own homes
Yesterday night, Israeli occupation forces have distributed flyers to the people of Khan al Ahmar demanding they should destroy themselves all the homes and building of the community until latest October 1. Israel’s military even offers ‘helpline’ for the people in Khan al Ahmar. The flyers printed on head paper with the emblem of the […]
Solidarity statement: For an end to impunity and for justice to the people of Honduras
We are following closely the trial of the murder of Berta Cáceres, leader of the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations in Honduras (COPINH), being held from September 10-28. A death squad assassinated her on March 2, 2016 in her home and wounded Gustavo Castro, member of Friends of the Earth Mexico. Berta was […]
#KhanalAhmar: Israel attempts to close access to the community
This morning Israel called in armoured bulldozers to destroy the access road to the Bedouin community. The road is already repaired and people are as determined as before to resist Israel’s ethnic cleansing. People from the community and from the ever growing number of volunteers that stay in Khan al Ahmar to give support to […]
Wadi al Ahmar destroyed at dawn – #KhanalAhmar still resists
This morning over 200 Israeli soldiers arrived with their weaponry and bulldozers to destroy the new neighbourhood of Khan al Ahmar, called Wadi al Ahmar. At dawn, the Israeli occupation forces came and surrounded the entire area. They threatened and intimidated the 200 residents of Khan al Ahmar and the some 100 activists from across […]
Wadi al Ahmar Neighborhood of Khan al Ahmar Established
Yesterday night, Palestinian activists have started yet another strategy to resist the erasure of the community of Khan al Ahmar by Israeli occupation forces: Five new structures have been built in the middle of the night just a few hundred meters from the existing structures, as a new ‘neighbourhood’. In order to demolish the structures, […]
Khan al Ahmar’s resistance rises!
After Israeli courts have decided on the imminent destruction of Khan al Ahmar, the Palestinian Bedouin community located East of Jerusalem, popular resistance is building to defend the community. Today, some 600 people from all across the West Bank have been gathering in Khan al Ahmar to pledge they will stand together with the Arab […]
Israel decides on destruction – Defend Khan al-Ahmar now!
After years of resistance and a month of legal battles, as expected the Israeli courts voted in favour of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian Bedouin community. In exactly one week, Khan al Ahmar is up for destruction. Click below and help us stop the demolition. Khan el Ahmar is a Palestinian Bedouin village of some […]