The latest confiscation orders to seal off a Jewish-only settler road will isolate thousands of dunums of Palestinian-owned land and ensure the local villages are isolated from each other to make space for another settlement finger on Palestinian land. ***image4***The Occupation forces gave confiscation orders to two villages, Mazraâa el Kibliyyeh and Abu Shukheidim. The […]
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Ein Jozeh – The Occupation leaves family homeless for the second time
Yesterday in al Walajeh, west of Bethlehem, the Occupation forces demolished Mundir Abdel Khader Hamad’s home for the second time in one year. ***image2***Early in the morning, a large number of Occupation forces arrived with bulldozers. They besieged the area around the house. The family refused to leave their home but the army evicted them […]
Norway’s IT Workers Union Calls for Boycott
The Norwegian Electrician and IT workers’ union has adopted a resolution calling for a comprehensive boycott of Apartheid Israel. The resolution, which was passed on November 13th, calls for boycott and sanctions on Israel until the country complies with all UN resolutions relating Palestinian rights, and demands that the Norwegian government call off its economic […]
Beit Iksa: the making of another ghetto
Last Wednesday, the farmers in Beit Iksa were issued confiscation orders by the Occupation. This amounts to the theft of another 600 dunums of land from the village will be used to build the Wall. According to the village council, this land contains a large number of olive trees, almonds and grapes. For most of […]
Anata: a Palestinian community squeezed among the Wall
In Anata, north-east of Jerusalem, the Occupation Forces distributed further confiscation orders. These additional orders will confiscate 167 dunums and 700 square meters from the land of Anata for the construction of a new phase of the Wall surrounding the town. This new phase is an integral part in the implementation of the âGreater Jerusalemâ […]
Deir Ballout and Kifr Diek: Surrounded and dispossessed by Walls
The Occupation forces stationed at the military checkpoint south of Deir Ballout issued the people of Deir Ballout and Kifr Diek a military order that will amount to the confiscation of 538 dunums and 700 square meters of land, located in the east of Deir Ballout and west of Kafr Diek. These orders announce a […]
Invitation to Join & Participate in the FIRST NATIONAL OLIVE FESTIVAL
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Waves of demolition: expulsion of the people
At the end of November, the Occupation carried out a big wave of demolitions targeting 16 buildings throughout the West Bank. Some were homes, some agricultural and commercial sheds, and three buildings belonged to the Palestinian General Petroleum Consortium. The demolitions â-all perpetrated under the pretext of lacking construction permits from the Occupation– have affected […]
Agrexco UK Blockaded For Third Time
Early on Sunday,26th of November 2006, Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli Company Carmel Agrexcoâs UK headquarters. This was part of a protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in Palestine. ***image1*** Carmel is complicit in war crimes under the International Criminal Court Act 2001 (ICC Act). They import fresh produce originating […]
Four people injured in Bil’in while dozens in al-Khas and Nu’man stand against settler attack
***image2***Four people were injured yesterday by Occupation bullets in Bil’in during the weekly demonstrations organized by the people of the village in coordination with the popular committee against the Wall. Around 300 people joined the demonstration, accompanied by representatives of national parties and institutions. This protest came on the anniversary of the UN Partition Resolution […]