On January 25th, the United Methodist Church held a panel titled âDivestment, the Middle East and Sudanâ. This panel was held during the Pre-General Conference, a prelude to the General Conference. The General Conference, which occurs every four years, functions as the highest legislative body in the Methodist Church. Those in the panel arguing in […]
Category: News
Palestinians protest Occupation crimes as part of the Global Day of Action
More than one hundred people marched in central Ramallah today in protest of Occupation crimes in the West Bank and Gaza. Demonstrators had gathered in spite of the rain to call for an end to the continuing Nakba, the construction of the Wall and the ongoing siege on Gaza. Signs in both Arabic and English […]
Occupation soldiers threaten Jayyous village with collective punishment
Over the last week, Occupation forces have begun conducting daily incursions into the village of Jayyous, shooting at villagers with live ammunition. The village has also been directly threatened with collective punishment, with the stated intention being to âteach Jayyous a lessonâ. ***image2***Over the past month, a number of people have been injured as a […]
Occupation takes land from al-Quds University for new apartheid road
The Occupation has started destruction for a new segregated road that connects settlements in Jerusalem with those in the east of the city. The path of the road crosses Palestinian land, in this instance leading to a seizure from al-Quds University in Beit Hanina. A large force consisting of Occupation soldiers, bulldozers and heavy machinery […]
Destruction of Life in Gaza – Stop the ongoing Nakba against the Palestinian people
Read the statement against the siege on Gaza; a siege which denies Palestinians in the tiny walled-in Strip any form of humanity. It calls upon all that are mobilizing in occasion of the Global Day of Action on January 26 called by the WSF to take immediate and concrete steps to isolate apartheid Israel. **** […]
Jahalin Bedouin: Nakba continues for the 4th generation
This morning, the Occupation destroyed homes that sheltered 30 people from the Jahalin Bedouin community who where living in villages located in the enclave northwest of Jerusalem. ***image2***Additionally, Occupation forces have ordered four Bedouin families to evacuate their homes and leave the area, as their homes are now part of a closed military zone in […]
Occupation Forces threaten the village of Kharbet al-Tawheel
Occupation forces issued 18 military orders to the people in Kharbet al-Tawheel demanding a halt to all building in the area. This includes residential and agricultural constructions as well as a mosque and a building that houses a generator, necessary for providing electricity to the area. Though this has always been Palestinian land, Occupation forces […]
Palestinian Authority forces attack anti Bush demonstrations
Between 15 and 25 people have been arrested and scores more injured after Palestinian Authority forces attacked a demonstration against the US President Bush in Ramallah with batons and pepper spray. Other demonstrators were attacked in Bethlehem. In defiance of a crackdown on demonstrations by the Palestinian Authority, at noon around 700 demonstrators attempted to […]
Farmers forced at gunpoint from olive groves near the Apartheid Wall
***image1***Occupation forces today forced farmers from Zububa village to abandon their work in olive groves near the Apartheid Wall. As the farmers tended their olive trees at a distance of around fifty meters from the Wall, a unit of Occupation forces surrounded them and ordered them to stop work, claiming that they posed a security […]
In Memoriam: Dr. Ahmad Maslamani, 20 December 1958 – 7 January 2008
People are protesting and fighting back â this is what we want.â ***image1***âThis morning Dr. Ahmad Maslamani, a leading national figure in the Palestinian grassroots struggle against the Occupation, passed away as a result of a heart attack. In 1985 he was a founder member of the Union of Health Work Committees, where he was […]