Beita: a model of resistance In early May, 2021, Palestinian residents in the village of Beita, which sits south of Nablus, woke up to find Mount Sabih, or Jabal Sabih in Arabic, turned into a Jewish only settlement outpost. Within a matter of a few days, settlers sat up about fifty mobile houses, constructed roads […]
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#MakeNoise for Beita, Beit Dajan and Khirbet Humsa
#MakeNoise for Beita, Beit Dajan and Khirbet Humsa Palestinian steadfastness and Israel’s hilltop strategy to isolate and annex the Jordan Valley. All across their homeland, Palestinians wake up every day to wrestle with Israeli apparatuses of violence and apartheid to stop their imminent ethnic cleansing. This report investigates Israel’s hilltop strategy aimed at isolating and […]
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Pregnant Palestinian prisoner released following international pressure!
Update, Friday, September, 3: Pregnant Palestinian prisoner Anhar Al-Deek, 25, was released from Israeli jails last night, September 2nd. Her release is on conditions to remain under house arrest and a financial bail of USD12, 500. Please watch a video showing the moment when Anhar was released here. The release of Anhar follows an international […]
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#SaveSilwan – August 15 another 16 homes will be up for demolitions
UPDATE: Continued pressure works – now we need more! Israeli courts have stayed demolition orders for all but 16 homes in the collective lawsuit in #Silwan. The court’s decision to delay demolition of the remaining homes until February 2022 aims to fragment grief and dilute resistance to expulsion. None of the 97 homes under demolition […]
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August 2nd: #RaiseYourVoice for Sheikh Jarrah
Israel’s Supreme Court is set to decide on the imminent forcible ethnic displacement of Al-Askafi, Al-Ja’ouni, Al-Qasem and Al-Kurd families from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on August 2nd. As we are well aware that Israeli courts are nothing more than institutions to enforce and consolidate apartheid and settler colonial policies against our people, […]
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#SaveJerusalem: We Can’t Stop Now!
Palestinian communities living in Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah and the Old City face increasingly brutal Israeli practices of ethnic cleansing and its discriminatory legal system. Stop the Wall has released a new web-page highlighting how the Israeli ethnic cleansing scheme in Jerusalem impacts the families living in these areas and how people’s power to resist Israeli […]
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Please contact your representatives or government officials now and help us to put pressure for international action to stop the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem. Please be polite and respectful at all times. At the same time insist on action. Please choose an action relevant to where you live: European Union – Basque Country – Belgium – […]
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Elad Association (Ir David) Elad Association (Ir David) was established in 1986. Its announced objective is the Judaization of Silwan and the creation of a contiguous Israeli-Jewish presence along the southern slopes of the so-called ‘Temple Mount.’ On its website, the settler colonial and apartheid association states that it works to Judaize Silwan through four […]
Once Israel took over the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967, including its Old City, Israeli leaders have set plans to decide on the fate of the Moghrabi Quarter that separated the Western (Wailing) Wall from the ‘Jewish Quarter,’ and the future of the Haram al-Sharif, the area where Al-Aqsa Mosque is located. A decision […]
My three sons are married. The three and their families live in three different neighborhoods in the town of Silwan. One of them lives in the neighborhood of Al-Bustan. In 2004, he received an administrative demolition order. He has a court hearing, on 15 August 2021, where a final decision of demolition might be issued. Part […]