Today, November 29 is the anniversary of Resolution 181 adopted by the United Nations that recommended the partition of Palestine. 73 years later continue Palestinians popular actions and everyday practices of sumud against the ongoing Nakba that started with the adoption of this resolution. The UN Partition Plan resulted in the large scale expulsion of […]
Tag: Land and Resource Theft
Apartheid Israel continues building its segregation regime
406 dunum will be confiscated to build a new Israeli road for Palestinians only, which will segregate them from settlers roads, and will connect Nablus to nearby Palestinian villages. This is the second main road that totally segregates between Palestinians and settlers. It is is part of a bigger plan to convert all Palestinian cities and […]
Olive trees to keep rooted in the land
On Thursday 24, the Palestinian Farmers Union and the Stop the Wall Campaign planted one thousand olive trees in Kardala, in the northern Jordan Valley. The aim of the tree planting initiative was to re-claim the land of the people of Kardala, which has been classified as a military zone. Kardala village has been classified […]
“Here We Remain” campaign continues in Jenin
With the participation of dozens of villagers, the Stop the Wall Campaign have held a volunteer day for the cultivation of olive trees in lands near the apartheid Wall in the village of Faqu’a. Last Friday, March 2, a large number of activists, old and young, from the village as well as representatives of local […]
Al Aqaba protest: We’ll defend every dunum of our land
Sunday, February 24, two hundred Jordan Valley activists protested against settler takeover of yet more of their land in Israel’s attempt to ethnically cleanse the area. Settlers had in the last days occupied land of the residents of al Aqaba, close to the Israeli military checkpoint at Tayaseer in the northern Jordan Valley. In response the […]
Bardala marches for the Right to Water
Israeli repression, which had prevented people from holding the ‘Right to Water’ march last weekend, could not stop Palestinian popular resistance and their struggle for water and rights. After Israeli forces had raided last week Baldara village, turning off the water supply and closing off the roads to impede the Right to Water march, Israeli […]
Join our march for the Right to Water
Tomorrow the people of Bardala village, men, women, children, and animals will march to Road 90, the main road in the Jordan Valley, carrying the slogan of ‘Depriving us of Water is a Crime Against Humanity’ and ‘We are Here to Take Back our Water’. They are determined to fight for the right to water […]
Take Action: Mekorot cuts water for tens of thousands of Palestinians
With the beginning of Ramadan, the State owned Israeli water company Mekorot cut off water supply in the northern West Bank. The most affected areas are currently the Nablus and Jenin governorates. In the meantime, Mekorot guarantees the full supply of water to the settlements located in the same area. Since decades, Mekorot has been […]
The Wall Will Fall
The initiative ‘Praying is Resisting’ of joint action between Stop The Wall and Kairos Palestine saw its first activities in occasion of the World Week of Prayer held from September 20 -26 under the theme “"God has broken down the dividing walls". The first two initiatives both took place in Bir ‘Ona, neighborhood of Beit Jala, the past weekend. On […]
Oslo – Bloody Oslo
Oslo – Bloody Oslo – is like swearing in Palestine. Palestinians associate Oslo with the agreement, that was negotiated in 1993 and the concretization of it in the Interim agreement – Oslo II – in September 1995. Divided the West Bank and Gaza These agreements divided the occupied West Bank and Gaza in three […]