ACTION PLAN ADOPTED TODAY ALSO CALLS FOR EDUCATING PUBLIC, TABLING OF NEW RESOLUTIONS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SECURITY COUNCIL Civil society organizations committed themselves to pressure their governments to condemn the construction of the “wall” by Israel as part of its pattern of illegal settlement activity, according to the Plan of Action adopted this afternoon at […]
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Final Status in the Shape of a Wall
In Jayyous, a village of 3,000 in the northern West Bank, Najah Shamasneh cradles her granddaughter in her lap and listens to her husband Yusuf tell of the loss of their agricultural land. The Shamasneh family’s 25 dunams(about 6.25 acres), their sole source of income, now lies on the western side of the wall that […]
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Israeli bulldozers destroy commercial stores as demolitions in Nazlat ‘Isa continue
Nazlat ‘Isa, Tulkarem — Israeli bulldozers, accompanied by the military, demolished today three commercial stores in Nazlat ‘Isa, located near the Green Line between Baqa Al Sharqia and Baqa Al Gharbia. Ten days ago, the Israeli Occupation Forces demolished 135 stores in the village as well as five houses. The large scale demolition of the […]
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Israel’s Apartheid Wall: A Prison for Palestinians
In a recent article for the International Herald Tribune, Jonathan Cook, a freelance journalist living in Israel, describes a humorous e-mail circulating on the Internet that explains the âlaw of diminishing territorial returnsâ in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to Cook, the first attempt at partitioning the land between Jews and Arabs, undertaken by the United […]
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Theory into Practice into Final Implementation: The Wall’s Path is Based on Ultimate Control over Palestinian Water Resources
Introduction The physical construction of the Wall is new, but the philosophy or purpose behind the Wall is not. The path of the Wall in its first phase, in the northern West Bank, is by no means coincidental, neither in its route nor in its being the first target area for the construction of the […]
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Israel Destroys Entire Commercial Market in One Day in Largest Demolition in Years
OVER 100 SHOPS AND 5 HOMES DEMOLISHED IN NAZLAT ‘ISA FOR THE BUILDING OF THE WALL Nazlat ‘Isa, Occupied West Bank — Marking the single largest demolition of buildings in years, the entire commercial area of Nazlat ‘Isa was today raised to the ground as some 15 bulldozers, accompanied by large numbers of military and […]
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Continued Demolitions in Nazlat ‘Isa
On August 21, 2003 the Israeli military âcontinuedâ with its plan to expel residents in Nazlat âIsa by demolishing over 100 shops–what remained of the commercial area after the demolitions in January 2003– as well as five homes. A full press release from this disaster is available at Latest News. ***image2******image3*** ***image4******image5*** ***image6*** ***image7*** More […]
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The Same Day Sharon Declares “Handover” of City Israeli Bulldozers Return to Encaged Qalqiliya City to Make Way for Wall “Buffer Zone”
Qalqiliya — Israeli bulldozers, accompanied with three military jeeps along with armed guards of the Israeli construction companies, began bulldozing 50 dunums of lands along the eastern side of the Qalqiliya Wall for its so-called “buffer zone”. Among the destruction were vegetables crops and water pipes. The buffer zone of this portion of the Wall […]
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Stop the wall ‘snaking through the West Bank’
Palestinians have been watching with despair the visits of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Washington. Amid the rhetoric of negotiations, more than 100 bulldozers are working every day to continue construction of the wall, highlighting the actual path that the road map is paving. While President Bush was […]
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Book: The Wall in Palestine – Facts, Testimonies, Analysis and Call to Action
***image2***The following excerpts have been abstracted from a book review featured in the August 2003 edition of the Palestinian English language monthly This Week in Palestine. The Wall in Palestine: Facts, Testimonies, Analysis and Call to Action, Edited by The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON) Jerusalem, 2003, 199 pages. To date, some 300,000 people are […]