Read the following article published on the Morning Star, People’s Daily on March 2nd by Manal Shqair of Stop the Wall and popular activist Mahmoud Soliman. The authors shine a light on Humsa, the semi-nomadic community in the northern Jordan Valley that is facing a fierce Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign. Shqair and Soliman discuss how […]
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Humsa: Israel forces EU to hand over humanitarian aid
On February 16th, representatives of the EU diplomatic missions in the Occupied Palestinian territories visited Humsa to provide them with tents for the residents. Yet, Israeli military stopped the officials and confiscated the shelters. Since November 2020, the Bedouin community of Humsa (Khirbet Hamsa al-Foqa), Northern Jordan Valley has been under a brutal demolition campaign […]
World Without Walls Podcast # 1: COVID19 Colonialism from Palestine to Brazil
Today, we kick off with the first of our series of #WorldwithoutWalls podcasts. In this series of podcasts we will focus on the various forms of injustices playing out in the way states and corporations address the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first episode, Pedro Villardi, ABIA, Brazil joined hosts Manal Shqair (Stop the Wall) and […]
Stop the Wall Highlights 2020
Content Our top 10 highlights in less than a minute Stop the Wall on the ground Protesting ongoing annexation… Decolonizing our land Right to Exist Campaign ‘You Are not Alone’ Campaign Palestine Cop26 Coalition Israeli neoliberalism vs. Palestinian steadfastness Popular COVID-19 emergency Response We will never forget: Nakba Commemoration Palestine Youth Forum A message of […]
West Bank Annexation Is Well and Ongoing!
Since yesterday, January 26th, Israeli bulldozers have been demolishing Palestinians’ property in different parts of Area ‘C’. So far, Israel has reduced to rubble Palestinians’ property in the Jordan Valley, South Hebron Hills and Khan al Ahmar, east Jerusalem. Today, Bedouin communities in the South Hebron Hills woke up to the sound of Israeli bulldozers […]
Abu Jamal: The oppressed who demands his right to exist
For the second time within less than 3 months, tens of armed Israeli soldiers raided the home of human rights defender and farmer Abu Jamal. The soldiers confiscated Abu Jamal’s house doors, windows, and a moveable toilet and destroyed his water well. Abu Jamal, his five children and his wife now live in a windowless […]
“Popular struggle ousts 9 out of 13 new settler outposts”
Through popular struggle, Palestinians succeeded in dismantling nine out of thirteen illegal settler outposts constructed in the West Bank since the beginning of the year despite the crescendo of violence and de facto and looming de jure annexation measures held by Israeli apartheid regime on the ground. In Beita, al-Sawyya, Khallet Hassan, Beit Dajan, Deir Sharaf, Aseera Ashamaliyya, Halhoul, Turmusaya and Aseera al-Qiblya Palestinians’ demonstrations and popular actions continued for months until the settler outposts built in these towns were removed. Through these victories Palestinians assert that no imposed facts on the ground by Israeli apartheid would deter them from reclaiming and decolonizing their stolen land.
‘You Are not Alone’: Celebrating the harvest season despite Israeli repression
For seventeen years, we have been relentlessly supporting farmers in the frontline defending their lands from the aggression of settlers and Israeli soldiers through the ‘You Are not Alone’ Campaign. It is a campaign of collective voluntary work actions aimed at supporting Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season. Starting from October 9th until October […]
#FreeMahmoud:Israeli Apartheid Robs Mahmoud’s Family of Joy on Eid Al-Adha Day
Tens of armed Israeli soldiers raided the home of Mahmoud Nawajaa, the General Coordinator of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), Palestine’s largest civil society coalition on Thursday, July 30ths. They arrested Mahmoud one day before the Al-Adha Eid celebrations. On Al-Adha Eid Day, Ruba Elaian, Mahmoud’s wife, expressed her sorrow at the absence of […]
Israeli Apartheid in the Jordan Valley: Abu Saqr and his family arrested on charges to access water
At about 1:00 AM on Wednesday, around fifty heavily armed Israeli soldiers surrounded the home of Abu Saqr with their military jeeps and arrested him and his twenty-two-year old son, Sakher. An hour before the detention of Abu Saqr and Sakher, Israeli soldiers raided the home of Ashraf, Abu Saqr’s son-in-law and a father of […]