Herak Shababi Mustakel, the Independent Palestinian Youth movement, calls for the expulsion of Tony Blair from Palestine and considers him an unwanted person. "Tony Blair persona non grata." This statement is in response to the Quartet's current Special Envoy in the Middle East. Tony Blair, said "The Arab Spring is a threat to peace in the region and the world" and considers that […]
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Don’t Collaborate with Apartheid
A call from Palestinian civil society on European universities, academics, students and people of conscience from Palestinian academics, students and civil society organisations. Download the call in English and French. The State of Israel practises a system of occupation, colonialism and apartheid over the Palestinian people, but it does not do so unaided. Israeli military companies are […]
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Request Filed for Further Inspection of the Read Sea – Dead Sea Water Conveyance Program
In July 2011, three civil society organizations filed a complaint with the World Bank's Inspection Panel regarding the Bank's studies for the Red Sea – Dead Sea Water Conveyance project that aims to divert water to the Dead Sea, which has been shrinking for years. The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), the Palestinian […]
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Al Walaja: The oldest olive tree in the world endangered for the occupation
Probably the oldest olive tree of the world is in Al Walaja village of Bethlehem district. Two diferent groups of Japanese and European experts dated Al Badawi (The Big One), as the Palestinians calls it, between 4,000 and 5,000 years old, making it the oldest olive tree in the world. Al Badawi currently is in […]
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Crossing daily a check-point to attend school
Hebron district is located some 30 kilometers south to Jerusalem. The City of Hebron, the capital of the district is one of the biggest in the West Bank, as it has some 170,000 Palestinian inhabitants and some 400 settlers guarded by between 2,500 to 3,000 soldiers. Hebron is fampuse, among other, for the quality of […]
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Farming in Hebron surrounded by soldiers
Hebron, or Al-Khalil in Arabic, is the only city in the West Bank were settlers are in the center of the city, which has made of this place one with more tension in the area. Due to this the Old City of Hebron was divide in the H1 and H2 zone. The H1 zone is […]
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Olive Harvesting in Jenin: A Photo Story
This year the season for the olive harvesting in Palestine began in the mid of October. Jenin, in the north of Palestine, was one of the frist districts where they began harvesting the olives. The kick-off of the olive harvesting in Jenin was done by a large group of Palestinian students and a group of […]
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The Global Intifada
Palestine is an international symbol of struggle against occupation, racism, and colonialism. On October 15, 2011 the world gathers in what some have called a global intifada, to stand up against imperialism. The first time an international activist came up to me and sincerely thanked me for a speech in which I had promised that […]
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Weekly Protests in the West Bank Support 18th Day of Prisoner Hunger Strike
Occupation forces faced the weekly protests against the apartheid wall and settlement with tear gas bombs and sound bombs which caused many suffocation cases among the protesters. This week, all the weekly demonstrations were in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their open hunger strike, now in its 18th day. The protesters held signs, called to […]
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Weekly Village Protest in Support of Prisoner’s Hunger Strike
The weekly protest in Ni’lin marched after finishing Friday praying on the villagers’ lands near the Apartheid Wall, which was in solidarity with the prisoner’s hunger strike. Their message was for people to stand with Palestinian prisoners. When the protesters marched closer to the Apartheid Wall, occupation soldiers started shooting tear gas bombs, which caused […]