5 2 2014, a group of "Itamar" settlement settlers, uprooted more than 200 olive trees, purported to be150 years old or older, which cover an area of 50 acres, and belongs to the citizen Ezat Moawia from Yanoun town, Aqarba municipality, south of Nablus. As the settlement explanation in the occupied territories continues, the occupation […]
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Palestinians ask Rome not to sign with Mekorot
Palestinian civil society organizations highlight that the proposed collaboration between Rome's water company ACEA and Mekorot amounts to a violation of that legal obligation and urge the authorities to follow the principled stand taken by your Dutch counterpart and ensure that ACEA does not contribute to violations of international law and human rights committed by […]
Norwegian Government Pension Fund and Danish Bank exclude two Israeli Companies
Last Thursday, the 30th of January, the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) announced its reconsideration over the previous decision made in August 2013, which rescinded the 2010 ban over two Israeli companies, Africa Israel Investments and its construction subsidiary, Danya Cebus. The re-exclusion was made due to “an unacceptable risk of the companies, through […]
Solidarity from the South: The World Social Forum declares its support to BDS and to the Palestinian people
In January, the Brazilian cities of Porto Alegre and Canoas received the Thematic Social Forum whose theme chosen was “Capitalist Crisis, Democracy, Social and Environmental Justice". The event, an icon of the altermundism and of the anti-neoliberal, anti-colonialist and anti – imperialist struggle, is a space for global civil society to organize itself and to […]
Popular Resistance Activists built the village of Ein Hejleh in the Jordan Valley
The popular resistance activists and political forces built the village of Ein Hejleh on the Church's lands belonging to Hejleh Monastery in the Palestinian Jordan Valley. The campaign aims at standing against the decisions of the occupation to judaize and confiscate the Jordan Vally area, and to revitalizing the Canaanite Palestinian village in the Palestinian […]
Israeli Court rules to allow settlement highway through Beit Safafa
Update to the Urgent Appeal issued in April 2013 by the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem (The Appeal, including background, is available at: https://civiccoalition-jerusalem.org/human-rights-resources/publications/submissions/urgent-appeal-action-0 On Sunday, 26 January 2014, the Israeli Supreme Court sanctioned completion of the illegal section of the “Begin Highway” that cuts through the Palestinian community of Beit Safafa in occupied […]
Activities continue planting olive seedlings against the 113 anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish National Fund.
Friday 31 of January, in coordination with the international Stop the JNF Campaign the Union of Palestinian Farmers and the anti-apartheid Wall Campaign planted olive seedlings in the village of Sebastia in Nablus, a continuation of the activities of anti-113anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish National Fund. The activists of the Farmers Union and […]
Activists expelled the settler of “Khilt Nahla” outpost and the occupation arrested three of them.
Today the 26th of January, Israeli forces arrested Hassan Briggah, the coordinator of the National Committee Against the Wall and settlements in Bethlehem, and the two children Obada and Harith Briggah 13 years old, after a confrontation with the settlers of "Khilt Nahla" outpost. Activists smashed the eastern gate of "Efrat" settlement this morning; they […]
Activists Removed Israeli Flags from the bypass roads
20 1 2014, a group of activists of the Popular Resistance in Bethlehem removed flags from the Israeli bypass roads and the flags in front of the settlements, "Tekoa" and "Daniel." Mohammed Briggah, the coordinator of Stop the Wall Campaign in Bethlehem said that this event comes in the context of that 2014 will be the year of […]
Planting trees named after displaced villages, in the 113 anniversary of the Jewish National Fund
1912014 – In a joint effort with the Stop the JNF campaign, the anti-apartheid Wall Campaign and the Union of Palestinian Farmers planted 113 trees in Al Hamma and Ain Al Beida areas and in the northern Jordan Valley, coinciding with the 113 anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish National Fund. This event was […]