***image2***On Wednesday 15th of August, workers and huge armor plated bulldozers showed up in the tiny village of Al Walaja, located a few kilometers away from the center of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. In the past Al Walaja has been heavily targeted by the Occupationâs house demolition campaign: more than seventeen homes and […]
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Al-Hadidiya: Bedouin villagers defiant as the Occupation bulldozers move in
On August 13 between 9 and 10 am, the demolition of the Bedouin village of al-Hadidiya in the Jordan Valley began. Two homes, belonging to Abdullah Hafez Yusuf Bani Odeh and Abdullah Hussein Bisharat, were destroyed along with nearby animal enclosures. However, the villagers remain defiant in the face of this latest onslaught by the […]
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Fasayil: Building a school, building resistance
***image2***The first bricks have been laid for a new school for the Palestinian village of Fasayil in the Jordan Valley, at the heart of the West Bank. The villagers hope to provide an education for the young people of the village, but the project is also a statement of defiance. Construction work requires a permit […]
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Anin: Farmers unable to reach their lands as the Occupation confiscates permits
***image2***Farmers from the village of Anin, northwest Jenin district, report that Occupation forces are confiscating the permits of farmers trying to access their isolated lands through the one gate in the Apartheid Wall. The Occupation forces claim that some farmers are sleeping on their land overnight. This new measure, which has been in force for […]
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Al-Hadidiye: Palestinian’s denied access to water in an attempt to force them from their homes
Ahmad Abdallah Hafeth Bani Odeh, from al-Hadidiye, was stopped this morning with his tractor and water tank at the al-Hamra checkpoint, on the orders of the Occupation authorities. ***image2***Ahmad has had his tractor confiscated, and told that it will not not been returned until he leaves his land and property in al-Hadidiye. Ahmad had intended […]
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Fasayil: Random arrests to induce people to leave their lands
A shepherd from Fasayil, in the Jordan Valley has been detained for three days, falsely accused of âtheft of waterâ. ***image2***Said Muhammad Jâdea Rashaidi from Fasayil has spent his life as a shepherd in the hills surrounding his village. This kind of repression is part of the Occupationâs policies to intimidate and bar Palestinians from […]
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Abu Za’rur hill: tightening the ghetto of Bethlehem
Abu Zaârur hill, south of Irtas, was today attacked by Israeli occupation forces â soldiers and militant Jewish settlers united â in an attempt to colonize yet another piece of Palestinian land. ***image2***Zionists settlers from Efrat settlement had organized a march onto the hilltop to take it over and settle on it. Around 1500 Occupation […]
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Palestinian Labor Leader appeals: “Support this worldwide Divestment and Boycott Campaign Against Israel and Apartheid”
“We actually don’t have any other way to exercise international pressure except calling our friends and supporters in the trade unions around the globe to call for this Boycott and Divestment.” stated Manawel Issa Abdellal, member of the Executive Committee of the 250 thousand member Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) in a recent […]
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New demolitions cause further misery in Qalqiliya district
***image2***Homes around Qalqiliya district have been targeted in a new wave of house demolitions by occupation forces. The destruction commenced last Thursday when occupations forces and bulldozers stormed the villages of Haja, Jena Safoot and Ras-Tira, in the northern West Bank district. They began destroying houses, water tanks and rain water collecting pools, claiming that […]
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Tire inhabitants protest against the closing of the Village entrance
This morning, hundreds of people from the village of Tire, West Ramallah, gathered in front of the electric gate that the Occupation erected two years ago in front of the only entrance left to the village. ***image2***This popular protest is a response to a new rule imposed by the Occupation on all Palestinians that want […]