In Niâlin and al-Maâsra the Friday prayers and protests against the Wall have marked the beginning of the olive harvest. Although there are a few days remaining until the official start of the harvest season, farmers have begun picking olives in a number of villages across the West Bank. They have already been met with […]
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November 9 – 16: Join the 6th Week against the Apartheid Wall!
***To download the call in PDF format, click here.*** ***To download the French version of the call in PDF format, click here.*** As part of the national and international mobilization to mark the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe), in which millions of Palestinians were either slaughtered or displaced by the Zionist militias and […]
South Hebron communities hit with confiscations
On 19 September, the Occupation military issued a military order confiscating 22 dunums of land in southern Yatta with the aim of setting up concrete barriers along the settler road. The day prior, Occupation soldiers announced that tens of dunums in the southern part of the Yatta had been transformed into a closed military zone. […]
Settlers burn 45 dunums of land in Far’ata
A group of settlers set fire to land belonging to residents of the village Farâata, located east of Nablus, with flames consuming 45 dunums of village agricultural land. ***image3***On 19 September, a fire was started in the northeast part of village land, meters from the Zohar Gilad settlement. Farmers had prepared crops of barely and […]
Arrests and attacks continue in Ni’lin
Ahad al-Khawaja, coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign in Niâlin, was injured when a sound grenade fired by Occupation troops struck him in the face. The Occupation military has also increased its campaign of arrests, with 6 youth arrested since last Thursday. On 23 September, Khawaja had been leading the EU delegation on […]
6 dunums confiscated in Ramin for checkpoint expansion
On the morning of 21 September, Occupation forces issued a military order requiring the confiscation of 6 dunums of agricultural land from the village of Ramin, southeast of Tulkarm. The confiscated land will be used for the expansion of the Enav military checkpoint. The residents of the village were informed that the military order would […]
Labour for Palestine contingent march in solidarity with Palestinian workers
Canada: Earlier this month, union activists from the Labour for Palestinian network marched in the Toronto Labour Day parade. The network brings together rank and file union activists who promote the BDS campaign within their respective unions. ***image1***Marching as part of the Canadian Union of Public Employees under the banner of âFree Palestine â Boycott […]
Modifying the route of the Wall in Jayyous and Falamya
Occupation forces recently sent a military order to the village council of Jayyous for the confiscation of 427 dunums and 100 meters of land belonging to the villages of Jayyous and Falamya. This land will be used to modify the route of the Wall along the western side of the villages and will permanently seal […]
Ni’lin: Activists halt construction and force drivers to flee
On 9 September, demonstrators in Niâlin held their Friday demonstration against the Apartheid Wall. Occupation soldiers fired on the central demonstration, but a group of youth succeeded in halting the bulldozers. On Friday afternoon, 150 residents of Niâlin marched toward their threatened lands. They were met by Occupation forces, who fired sound and gas bombs […]
Occupying the Cliff Hotel in Abu Dis
The Occupation administration has announced that it intends to confiscate the Cliff Hotel in Abu Dis. This is the latest in a series of attempts, beginning in 1996, by the Occupation military to occupy the building and land on which it is built. The Wall surrounds the hotel, isolating it from Abu Dis in the […]