Category: News

On 14 August, Occupation forces issued military order putting a 1,500 m2 area from the Tal Ramida neighbourhood, located in the middle of the old city of Hebron, under military control. This land, which is owned by Palestinians, was ostensibly confiscated for “military purposes” and will serve to further increase settler control over the old […]

Occupation machinery annexed and bulldozed 6 dunums of agricultural land belonging to residents of Rummana village. The targeted land, which is being expropriated for the nearby military training base, contains a number of olive trees whose loss will adversely affect local farmers. On 12 August, Occupation machinery bulldozed and uprooted fruitful olive trees on the […]

***image2***Occupation forces informed Palestinian villagers almost exactly a month ago about the imminent confiscation of 356 dunums in the northern Jordan Valley. Since then, people in the area have been faced with the likelihood of losing their land and property. Two settlements in the same region will be expanded. On 10 July 2008, soldiers issued […]

Although the Occupation forces tried to close the entrance of Ni’lin, locals from surrounding villages and international solidarity activists were still able to attend an anti-Apartheid Wall demonstration in the village. This time the Occupation experimented with new techniques in an attempt to break the demonstration, throwing balloons filled with sewage water and unleashing police […]

A large Occupation force raided the village of Imreiha, north of Ya’bad and northwest of Jenin. Soldiers prevented the farmers from completing their work on two water reservoirs under the pretext that they were located in area C. Under Oslo, area C is under complete Occupation control and as such Palestinians wishing to build in […]

BDS NEWSLETTER Edition: 05 – July, 2008 CORPORATE NEWS Feature: Derail Alstom – Saudi Arabia deal The state owned Saudi Electric Company (SEC) has signed a letter of intent to award Alstom a 1.9 billion Euro contract to build a power plant in Shoaiba. French multinational Alstom is a 20% shareholder in Citypass consortium that […]

A unity and solidarity demonstration in Ni’lin stopped the Occupation’s bulldozers and prevented them from for hours from carrying out their usual destruction. A central demonstration made up of hundreds of Palestinians and solidarity activists took off from the center of the town of Ni’lin and headed towards the towards the Occupations bulldozers last Thursday. […]

On Monday August 4, 17-year-old Ni’lin resident Yousef Amira died from previous injuries received on July 30, when he was shot twice in the head with rubber bullets during a popular demonstration in Ni’lin. Soldiers shot Yousef just hours after the village held the funeral of 12-year-old Ahmad Mousa, who had been murdered the day […]

On Friday, new faces appeared in Ni’lin to join a demonstration of more than a thousand against the Apartheid Wall. Occupation soldiers shrank from confronting the people, instead vacating the area. Demonstrators then proceeded to tear down two kilometers of fence that had been erected on their land. ***image2***People of all ages marched to the […]