#apartheidweek – UK and US: February 24-March 2 | Europe: March 1-8 | South Africa: March 10-16 | Brazil: March 24-28| Palestine, Arab world and Asia: TBA See the trailer and the Israeli Apartheid Week poster at: https://apartheidweek.org/resources/ “We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we […]
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Planting “Freedom Seedlings” activities continues.
8 2 2014, Dozens of volunteers of Palestinians Farmers Union, Stop the Wall Campaign, Kafr al-Labad Association, and some farmers, planted olive seedlings in "Alhvasi" region, under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Palestinian and Arab Society for the Protection of Nature . They planted seedlings near "Ifni Havis" settlement, which was […]
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Israeli forces detained STW activists near the Jordan Valley.
8 2 2014, This morning, Occupation Forces detained four Popular Resistance activists on Tayaseer barrier, while they were heading to Al Hadedieh area in the northern Jordan Valley. The Israeli army detained Sohail Al Salman, the Committees coordinator of Stop the Wall campaign; as well as detaining the activists Omar Mansour, and Salah al-Khawaja, who […]
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Settlers’ attacks Report for January of 2014. Uprooting more than 2,000 olive trees and almost daily attacks on citizens.
January 2014 witnessed increase in the continues settlers' crimes against Palestinians and their property, as well as the reveal of further settlement expansion plans that the Israeli government agreed on. The Israeli government has announced the construction of more than 1,600 housing units were distributed as follows: 0.250 housing units in the settlement of "Ofra" […]
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Settlers uproot trees while Israel plans 558 new housing units in Jerusalem
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]