On Tuesday, 4 August, 2009, the families of Hannoun and Al-Ghawi in Sheikh Jarrah woke up to loud knocking on the doors of their homes before dawn. Opening the door, members of the families were shocked by Israeli police and soldiers’ ordering them to evacuate their homes within half an hour. An Israeli officer among […]
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Jerusalem – An Overview
In 1948, Israel took over three quarters of Jerusalem after destroying 38 Palestinian villages located within the city’s outskirts and forcibly expelling their residents. On the wreckage of these villages, Jewish settlements were constructed. The part of Jerusalem that was seized when Israel came into being became to be known as West Jerusalem. The remaining […]
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Ongoing Action Alert On Sunday, August 15, the deadline for 49 homes in Al Bustan neighbourhood, in Silwan, Jerusalem, expires. The Palestinian families had been ordered to demolish their homes before then. Amany Odeh, a dentist and a mother of two, is one of the people that may lose their home any time after August […]
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Anti-PA protests met with more violence
Yesterday, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Hebron, Ramallah and Bethlehem calling for the overthrow of the Palestinian Authority and the cancelation of the Oslo Accords signed with Israel in 1993, including the security coordination with the Israeli military. These protests erupted after the brutal murder of political activist Nizar Banat by some […]
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Statement: Stop the Wall calls for stopping the PA escalated oppression
On Thursday, 24 June, 2021, some two dozen officers of the Palestinian Authority [PA] broke into the home of Nizar Banat, a candidate of the cancelled parliamentary elections, an advocate of free speech, and an outspoken critic of the PA’s corruption and security coordination with the Israeli occupation. According to members of Banat’s family, the […]
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Beita: A fortress of sumud in the face of Israeli land seizure and brutality
Since months, Palestinians across Historic Palestine have been rising up against decades of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid. In the village of Beita, south of Nablus city, Palestinians have not only been protesting decades of Israeli oppression, but also intensified Israeli pillaging of their land. The ongoing protests since over a month come as a […]
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Palestinians of Silwan: The unwanted owners of the land
“My family which consists of twenty-one members has two houses in Al-Bustan, and another one in Batn AlHawa neighborhoods of Silwan in Jerusalem. In these three houses our existence is threatened with Israeli ethnic cleansing. While the Israeli authorities want to demolish our two houses in Al-Bustan under the pretext that they were built without […]
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#PalestineIntifada: Youth rattling Israeli apartheid
What first began as a daily protest in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem against Israeli imminent ethnic cleansing of six Palestinian families there and Ramadan protests at Damascus Gate and Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem spontaneously spread to the rest of Historic Palestine and has grown to become a massive uprising. This is not a popular […]
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#Nakba73 Events across the globe
We have compiled a list of events that have been organized across the globe to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba and to build pressure stop the brutal aggression and escalation of repression against the Palestinian people. All over the world, people are standing up inspired by and in support of the Palestinian steadfastness […]
#Nakba73 events across the globe
Argentina Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Catalunya Chile France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Mexico Netherlands New Zealand / Aotearoa SAT, 15 MAY Palmerston North – Manawatu Muslim Association Rally for Palestine Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa – PSNA – The Square, Palmerston North Auckland – Nakba Day and Save Sheikh Jarrah Rally Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa – […]