Category: News

The Guardian has published yesterday an open letter signed by 94 authors, film-makers, musicians and performers from all over the world endorsing cultural boycott as their means to protest the Occupation and Israeli apartheid. John Berger, British novelist, painter, and art historian, started the initiative and his appeal has been take up by some of […]

This Friday, as every Friday, people from the village of Bil’in marched against the Apartheid Wall after prayers. ***image2***Around 200 protesters took part in the demonstration, marching to their land isolated by the Wall carrying the Palestinian flag, placards and banners for national unity. As the villagers approached the Wall, Occupation forces attacked them, preventing […]

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, Mazra’a el Kibliyyeh and Abu Shukheidim. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 “Greater Jerusalem” […]

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 […]

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 –-all perpetrated under the pretext of lacking construction permits from the Occupation– have affected […]