JORDAN VALLEY, December 31, 2012 (WAFA) – The Israeli military ordered more than 1000 Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley to leave their homes for 48 hours to allow the army to conduct military exercise in that area, an official said Monday. Aref Daragmeh, head of Wadi al-Maleh village council, told WAFA that the army […]
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Palestinian Home Demolished in East Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, January 1, 2013 (WAFA) – Workers from the Israeli West Jerusalem municipality Tuesday demolished a Palestinian home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawieh under the pretext it was built without a permit, according to the house owner. Ahmad Issawi, 40, told WAFA that the workers brought a bulldozer and proceeded to demolish the […]
NZ Super Fund cuts firms on ethical grounds
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has excluded three companies from its $20 billion investment portfolio on responsible investment grounds. All three companies – Africa Israel investments and subsidiary Danya Cebus, Elbit Systems Ltd, and Shikun Binui – are involved in constructing Israeli settlements or a separation barrier in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which have […]
Once again weekly demonstrations against the settlements, the apartheid wall, imprisonment of Palestinians and in the struggle for human rights were held throughout all of the West Bank, and once again the occupation forces suppressed the legitimate march
Occupation forces suppressed the weekly demonstration of Kufr Qaddum, east Qalqiliya district, against the Israeli settlements and demanded the occupation authorities to open the main entrance of the village, which has been closed for more than 10 years. The Israeli suppression of the demonstration led to several injuries with suffocation and people fainting as […]
Violations of human rights and international law continued this week with further demolition of houses, mosques and agricultural facilities. The occupation toppled it all by issuing the construction of several thousand housing units in the West Bank.
Occupation forces demolished Tuesday morning the mosque of al-Mafqara east of Yatta and south of Hebron for the second time in a row for two year on Tuesday the 4th of December. Ratib al-Jabour, from Yatta grassroots committee, told the Palestinian news agency (Wafa) that “the occupation forces raided al-Mafqara in the dawn and […]
¿Dónde está la rendición de cuentas por los crímenes de guerra israelíes?
La Autoridad Palestina podría ser "traidores" si estaban de acuerdo con la condición que el Reino Unido está tratando de imponer a cambio del compromiso de apoyar a Palestina mejorando su calidad de miembro en la ONU. Así lo dijo Raji Sourani, director del Centro Palestino para los Derechos Humanos (CPDH) en una reunión con los abogados […]
52 leading international figures call for a Military Embargo on Israel
Occupied Palestine – On the eve of the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine, 52 international notables issued a statement calling for “urgent … international action towards a mandatory, comprehensive military embargo against Israel.” Though directly motivated by Israel’s latest war of aggression against the 1.6 million Palestinians in the occupied and […]
Where’s the Accountability for Israeli War Crimes?
The Palestinian Authority would be “traitors” if they agreed to a condition the UK is seeking to impose in exchange for agreeing to support Palestine upgrading its membership in the UN. So said Raji Sourani, Director of the Palestine Center for Human Rights (PCHR) at a meeting with lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) in Gaza […]
Report on West Bank Palestinian cities solidarity with Gaza
As a result of the Israeli aggression on Gaza protest demonstrations and solidarity marches was arranged all over the West Bank â From Jenin in the north to Hebron in the south. Once again the occupation forces of Israel suppressed the popular resistance of the Palestinians. On Tuesday 20th of November clashes erupted in the […]
The Occupation force suppresses weekly marches in the West Bank. Several demonstrators injured.
The legitimate and rightful weekly demonstration of the Palestinian continued this Friday against the occupation, the apartheid wall, & the settlements. Youth and foreign solidarity activists in Nabi Saleh was wounded by rubber bullets, after Israeli occupation forces suppressed the protest march of the village, north-west of Ramallah, against the settlement and confiscation of Palestinian […]