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On the 15th of April a gang of Zionist settlers from the Kedumim settlement uprooted and destroyed more than 1000 mature olive trees in the village of Jeet, located east of Qalqilya. The trees belonged to Zakariya as-Sadha and Dhafer Khalil, both residents of Jeet. This attack is part of larger series of assaults undertaken […]

Land Day was commemorated both across historic Palestine and internationally on the 30th of March. Protests in support of Palestinians where held in the Canary Islands, Brazil and New York, to single out a few locations. In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Palestine Community of the Canary Islands along with al-Zeitun and the Women […]

In Yafa, more than two thousands residents of the city, joined by other Palestinians, organized a mass protest to on the 29th, one day before Land Day. Yafa, also known as the bride of the sea, was occupied in 1948 by Zionist forces that expelled the majority of the original Palestinian residents from the city. […]

In 1976, Palestinians protested a massive expropriation of land in the Galilee region. In 2008 the protests continue to mark March 30th, while Occupation forces continue to occupy land and expand the settlements that creep across Palestine. These settlement practices, which are official Occupation policy, come at a time when the military is intensifying a […]

The focus of this year’s Land Day is the ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people. As we near the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing campaign initiated by the Occupation in 1948 continues. Land confiscations, home demolitions and settlement expansions move forward with alarming regularity. Both the tactics and the aims are the […]

Occupation forces demolished homes and property across the West Bank, with the Jerusalem and Hebron municipalities the most adversely affected. Homes were demolished in al-Jeeb in northwest Jerusalem and Hizma in the northeast, all under the pretext that they were built without permits. The Occupation municipality systematically refuses building permits to Palestinians in order to […]

A so-called legal advisor and general representative in the Occupation government has announced a decision that gives border police the right to use live ammunition against Palestinian demonstrations and protests that take place close to the Apartheid Wall. This order has been undertaken in order to prevent Palestinians from protesting against the Wall that is […]

Occupation forces issued a military order to Yusif ‘Ali Badirat demanding that he leave his home in the village of ar-Ra’as. The village, which is located south of Tulkarm, has been split into two parts by the Wall. The order gives Yusif three days to appeal to the Occupation court; if he does not do […]