“Israeli soldiers held me captive for eight hours in the hot summer sun,” says Sami Huraini as he narrates how he was arrested and harassed by the Israeli occupation yesterday, June 28. After eight hours of detention, humiliation and dehumanization Sami was released. Sami, who is a grassroots organizer and co-founder of Youth of Sumud, […]
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Israeli live-fire military training in Masafer Yatta is ongoing
For a week, Israeli soldiers along with their guns, bulldozers, military jeeps, tanks and helicopters have been invading Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta. This is part of the live-fire military training that has started on June 21, 2022 and will last for two more weeks. The Israeli army’s military training is being carried out in […]
Rising repression shows the cracks in Israel’s system of apartheid
Apartheid Israel is escalating the violence it has been inflicting on Palestinians for more than seven decades. Since the start of April, Israel has killed over 23 Palestinians, arrested and injured hundreds more. It has extended its attack on Jerusalem, invading almost daily even the holy sites of the city. While Israel is collectively punishing Palestinians in the […]
Every day, Palestinians encounter Israeli settler violence
Abu Ali, a farmer from the village of Sinjel, Ramallah district has been enduring settler violence for years now. He and other farmers whose land is adjacent to surrounding Israeli illegal settlements are assaulted whenever they go to tend their land. “A few days ago,” Abu Ali narrates, “fanatic Israeli settlers affiliating with the Hilltop […]
November 9, 2021: We started planting Seeds of Justice for a World without Walls!
November 9 – Global Day of Action for a World without Walls – this year has been the start for a number of Urgent Letters that will take place over the course of a year. Through our Urgent Letters, written collectively by different oppressed groups, we want to address the various forms of walls of […]
COP26 Event: Apartheid Israel and climate change are intertwined
While governments meet at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26 in Glasgow, we, the people come together to denounce any solutions that are not informed by our struggles for self-determination, including Palestinians’ anti-colonial struggle. On Nov. 9th we will denounce solutions to climate change that continue to perpetuate Israel’s three-tiered system of oppression: settler colonialism, […]
#Sabra_Shatila_Massacre: The dead want to rest in peace
39 years passed after Israel, in cooperation with the Lebanese phalanges, committed the massacre of Sabra and Shatila. We remember the horrific crime with the same intensity of pain and sorrow as if it has just happened as justice has been done to the thousands of women, men and children who were slaughtered with cold […]
Despite torture, Palestinian prisoners continue to humiliate Israel
Five days after searching for the six escaped Palestinian prisoners, the Israeli occupation arrested four of them on September 10th and 11th. The re-arrested prisoners Mohammed Ardah (39), Mahmoud Ardah (46), Zakariya Zubaidi (46), and Yaqoub Qadri (49) have been subject to severe torture by Israeli interrogators, since the first moment of arrest. Only today […]
#SaveJerusalem: We Can’t Stop Now!
Palestinian communities living in Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah and the Old City face increasingly brutal Israeli practices of ethnic cleansing and its discriminatory legal system. Stop the Wall has released a new web-page highlighting how the Israeli ethnic cleansing scheme in Jerusalem impacts the families living in these areas and how people’s power to resist Israeli […]
Anti-PA protests met with more violence
Yesterday, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Hebron, Ramallah and Bethlehem calling for the overthrow of the Palestinian Authority and the cancelation of the Oslo Accords signed with Israel in 1993, including the security coordination with the Israeli military. These protests erupted after the brutal murder of political activist Nizar Banat by some […]