***image2***On Friday 26 October, Palestinian demonstrators from the West Bank village of Mazraâ were shot at with live ammunition by Israeli Occupation Forces and settlers while protesting against the theft of their land. By order of the Occupation forces, 1,000 dunums of the villageâs land are being confiscated and given to the two nearby settlements […]
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French activists spectacularly protest Olmert’s Paris visit
***image2***Generation Palestine, a group of young European activists who took part in summer camps organized in Palestine with the General Union of Palestine Students, demonstrated their opposition Monday October 22 to the visit of Occupation Prime Minister and war criminal Ehud Olmert and his warm welcome by French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The activists released a […]
Brukin: Olive trees and historical sites levelled for illegal industrial zones
***image2***Yesterday Occupation bulldozers continued tearing up the lands of the village of Brukin in the north of the West Bank. The bulldozers have now been at work for two days, clearing the way for the expansion of the industrial zones (For more information on the industrial zone) of the nearby Israeli settlement of Brukhin. The […]
Palestinian Primary School in Fasayil to be demolished on the 29th of November!
***image2***On the Thursday, the 17th of October the Israeli Occupation Forces issued a demolition order for Fasayilâs primary school and yet another Palestinian familyâs home in the village. Construction work requires a permit from the Occupation authorities but since the occupation of the West Bank in 1967 not one has been granted. The systematic ban […]
Land seized for road to link Palestinian ghettoes
Occupation forces issued a military order for the confiscation of 1,200 dunums of Palestinian land for the construction of a new road to connect southern West Bank ghettos with Jericho. The land will be seized from the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Abu Dis and Sawahre and areas near Nabi Mussa, south Jerusalem. The new road will […]
Two men shot at the Deir Ballut checkpoint
***image2***On Friday 5 October 2007 two Palestinian men from â48 land were injured when Occupation forces opened fire on their car at Deir Ballut checkpoint, West of Salfit. Witnesses said that the soldiers began shooting without warning and for no apparent reason as the car approached the checkpoint, which is used by Palestinian labourers passing […]
Al-Walaja under closure and Bil’in demonstrators wounded as Occupation attacks weekly demonstrations
***image2***Nine Palestinians were beaten and injured in the village Bilâin and the village of Al-Walaja put under closure as the Occupation attacked the villagesâ weekly demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall on Friday. In Al-Walaja, West Bethlehem villagers held a sit-in on village lands which are being destroyed for the building of the Apartheid Wall. The […]
Five new colonies to be constructed on stolen Palestinian land while the Occupation infrastructure expands
***image2***On Thursday, a group of Zionist settlers announced in a press conference their intention to build five new colonies on stolen Palestinian land across the West Bank. One of the areas is next to Homesh settlement south-west of Jenin, in place of Silat adh Dhahr settlement which was evacuated in August 2005 during the implementation […]
Bedouin homes demolished in Anata: the latest chapter in one family’s Nakba
***image2***On Thursday 20 September, a large unit of Occupation forces descended upon the Bedouin community of Arab Al-Jahalin on the eastern edge of Anata village, North East of Jerusalem, destroying seven animal shelters, two zinc houses, a storage unit and a fence. The raid destroyed property belonging to the Jahalin and Abu-Dahuk families. Khamis Suelem […]
UN Civil Society Conference on Palestinian Rights: A Call against Israeli Apartheid !
This yearâs UN civil society conference organised by the UN Committee on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people was one of the most publicized. Normally held in relative silence at one of the UN headquarters, the hosting of the conference at the EU parliament in Brussels has provoked an unprecedented media campaign launched by […]