***image2***On Friday June 24, Popular Committees against the Apartheid Wall united with Palestinian political forces to continue the struggle against the Wall in a number of demonstrations across the West Bank. Hundreds of people marched to their lands, challenging the Occupation Forces carrying out the Zionist policies of racist expansionism. Protesters also vented their outrage […]
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Pink Floyd Frontman visits Apartheid Wall in Bethlehem
Roger Waters, frontman of British band Pink Floyd, visited the Apartheid Wall in Bethlehem district on June 22 2006. Waters used the trip to highlight his opposition to the Occupation and the Wall and scrawled the infamous Pink Floyd lyrics “We don’t need no thought control” on the Apartheid structure before stating “without being here […]
Settlement expansion on Masha lands – a Zionist tool to consolidate land theft
***image2***Elkana settlement has taken over Masha lands in the east of Salfit district since the 1970âs. New expansion plans will swallow further village land isolated behind the Apartheid Wall. While the gates and the wall are barring farmers from reaching their lands, settlement construction destroys their plantations. Villagers learned about the new settlement expansion on […]
Italy shows growing sign of support for BDS Call
***image2***Fathy Khdirat, coordinator of the Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign for the Jordan Valley, has finished a successful tour of various cities throughout Italy. Participating in Biella at the concluding seminar of a series of events focusing on Palestine as well as in meetings with social groups and media, he witnessed a growing trend in […]
Sewage dumped in Brukin: Palestinian village under attack
Brukin is braced for its second summer as it battles against ghettoization, isolation of its farming lands and the dumping of raw sewage water in the village from Zionist settlements. The health risks to Palestinians from the sewage water threatens to unleash a fresh crisis as the Occupation ensures life along the Wallâs path remains […]
Geneva conference looks to future with boycott of Israel on agenda
An international conference organised by the Swiss committees of âCollectifs Urgence Palestineâ and the European Coordination for Palestine (ECCP) took place in Geneva on May 26-28 with a wide array of speakers and activists in attendance. The conference declaration stated support for the Palestinian call for boycotts, sanctions and divestment (BDS) against Apartheid Israel as […]
Al Khader unites in mounting protests against ghettoization
The people of al Khader gathered in their second Friday demonstration to protest against their ghettoization through the Apartheid Wall. Construction of the Wall will isolate the villagesâ land and involve a series of house demolitions. Mass protests began last week as the village becomes set to loose 20,000 dunums of land. After Friday prayers, […]
New Land confiscations in Tulkarem and Qalqiliya: Squeezing Palestinians in the Ghettos
Occupation Forces have initiated fresh land confiscation in the latest series of modifications for the path of the Apartheid Wall. These latest changes in Tulkarem and Qalqiliya aim to ensure that more Palestinians are imprisoned within the ghettos of the West Bank. In Tulkarem Occupation Soldiers handed out confiscation orders for 587 dunums of land […]
Occupation Steals More Deir Sharraf Land to Strengthen Settlement Belts
Three days ago, Occupation forces began uprooting lands in Deir Sharraf, north of Nablus. The land destruction serves the construction of a wall around the Zionist settlement of Shafe Shamron, the eastern part of a belt of colonies which will cut off the northern-most part of the West Bank. On Wednesday, 7th of June, Occupation […]