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In the last two weeks, Palestinians marked the 30th anniversary of Land Day, commemorating the 6 martyrs killed defending their lands in 1976. Rallies and protests captivated towns and villagers across the West Bank, as Palestinians vowed steadfastness to the liberation of their lands. Meanwhile, the Occupation stepped up the isolation of the Jordan Valley […]

The expulsion of 5 families from their homes in Silwan on Friday the 29th of March, saw the Occupation continue its systematic policy of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem. Three houses built on one dunum of land (around 300m2 each) were forcibly taken over by the Jewish National Fund (JNF). Using a mixture of fraud, deception […]

Since Friday 31st of March, Occupation Forces have completely sealed-in Palestinian communities in the northern Jordan Valley. No one has been allowed to enter or exit the area, resulting in the rotting of agricultural products and a total shut down in the cultural, social and economic activities of Palestinians living there. ***image2***The measures come a […]

Occupation Forces have launched a new strategy of control in the Budrus, undertaking night raids into the village and forcing people at gunpoint to fingerprint checks. Soldiers have stormed several houses over the last week undertaking what they call a “statistical survey”, which involves forcibly documenting all of the men in the households. In an […]

On the 30th memorial of Land Day – the day 6 Palestinians in the Galilee were massacred defending their land from confiscation – the popular committees against the Apartheid Wall, together with numerous other organizations, escalated their resistance against the continued colonization and land theft. From Jenin to Hebron, thousands of people confronted the Occupation […]

This year’s memorial comes at a critical time. The racist Occupation’s attacks on our people are intensifying dramatically. Their policies – closures, assassinations, house demolitions, construction of the Apartheid Wall and its associated network of by-pass roads and tunnels, annexation of the Jordan Valley, and the judaization of Jerusalem – aim to bring us to […]

***image2***Popular resistance in Beit Sira continued to challenge the attacks of the Occupation bulldozers which are razing the village’s lands for the Apartheid Wall. This weeks protest sparked clashes with Occupation Forces as Palestinians refused to accept their ghettoization and the destruction of their communities. Around 400 villagers gathered in front of the village council […]

Occupation Forces distributed confiscation orders on the 19th of March for land belonging to 6 villages west of Bethlehem – Walaja, Battir, Husan, al-Qabu, Wadi Fukin and Surif. Military orders proclaimed the confiscation of over 766 dunums of Palestinian land for the route of the Wall as it cuts in from the “Green Line” to […]