***image2***Several hundred villagers in `Aboud, west Ramallah waged a large-scale demonstration against construction of the Apartheid Wall on their lands. Demonstrators, from the young to the village elders from âAboud and surrounding villages, accompanied by members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, congregated together in the center of the village and marched in a long processional […]
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Houses Demolished in Only Available Space for Palestinian Expansion in Shuqba, West Ramallah
***image2***Abed El Aziz Fakhry Qdaah from Shuqba, west Ramallah woke up to bulldozers trampling his sonâs family dreams, reducing their future to the leveled ground. The various strategies of Occupationâthe Wall, the settlements, and demolishing housesâ strip Palestinians of their smiles and stability in their life, aiming to completely destroy hopes for a viable future. […]
Church of England joins divestment movement!
The Church of England’s general synodâincluding the Archbishop of Canterburyâvoted last night to disinvest church funds from companies profiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The main target of divestment will be the US earth-moving equipment company Caterpillar that supplies vehicles used by the Occupation to demolish Palestinian homes. The church currently invests about £2.5m of […]
Youth Respond as Occupation Targets Remaining Jayyus Lands on Other Side of the Wall
***image7***Over fifty trucks a day filled with trash from settlements are being brought in and dumped on the lands of Jayyus village, in three different places. The accumulation and scattering of this trash is suffocating olive trees and surrounding fields. The Youth of Jayyus, unwilling to accept this Zionist agenda, organized a demonstration at one […]
Controversy Erupts at World Economic Forum over Call to Boycott Apartheid Israel
Palestinian activists have scored a major coup in the campaign to isolate Apartheid Israel and managed to publish an article calling on the world to boycott Israel in the Global Agenda, one of the major journals of the World Economic Forum (WEF). All of the participants in the latest meeting of the global capitalist elite […]
Family Homes Demolished in Al-Walaja and Numan, Bethlehem
***image2***In Numan village, northeast of Bethlehem, and in Al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, people face a real danger of expulsions due to the occupation policy which has terrorized and strangled them while leaving them beneath the basic level of subsistence without access to water or electricity âuntil they be obliged to leave the area.â A […]
Activist Court Case Puts Apartheid Israel On Trial
Seven Palestine solidarity activists are in court in Britain this week facing prosecution but aiming to use the case to highlight the call for boycott and divestment from Apartheid Israel. The case will argue that trade with Israeli companies, which profit from the Occupation and the oppression of the Palestinian people, is illegal and must […]
The Wall in a Week – Occupation Bolsters Expansion on Destroyed Palestinian Lives
The Occupation intensified its violent and racist policies this week against Palestinians in their villages and cities, concentrating on the schemes to exterminate Palestinian existence. The Occupation has launched a huge campaign to demolish Palestinian houses under the claim of having âno permitsâ, a technical tool used to expel Palestinians from their lands to annex, […]
House demolitions in Jerusalem continue unabated
***image2***Occupation bulldozers arrived in Ein Lozeh in Silwan (Jerusalem) on the morning of January the 16th and attacked the house of Ahmed al Raziq. Al-Raziqâs modest property consisted of a single 75 square meter room. He had built a small structure above the entrance to the property in order to prevent the house from decaying. […]
Gaza Farmers Further Squeezed by the Occupation
***image2***Farmers in Gaza have started a grassroots call for a boycott on Israeli goods as the Occupation simultaneously floods Palestinian markets with their products and disallows Palestinian farmers to sell their products in the West Bank or the â48 lands or any kind of export. At the end of last week, farmers gathered in front […]