Related: Settler Violence – in pictures Thursday September 08, 2011 12:34 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday morning the city of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, and demolished three wells while army bulldozers uprooted farmlands in the Nablus district. Armed Israeli settler also wrote graffiti [...]
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Silwan “Archaeological Conference” Demo – Sept 1, 2011 – video
More Videos: Category Video Sept 1, 2011 Archaeologists and Tourists, Don’t be the Settlers’ Collaborators! Elad association is not a research institution interested in archaeology, but a political tool for the Judeaization of East Jerusalem through the expulsion of the Palestinian inhabitants. We will remind them that they are in an occupied village called Silwan, [...]
Wasteland in al Walajeh: Israeli military destruction of farmland – in pictures
7 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Tuesday September 6th local Palestinians from the village of Al Walajeh gathered with international activists to protest the building of the illegal separation barrier as well as the destruction of ancient olive trees. The demonstrators succeeded in halting the razing of Palestinian land for approximately one [...]
OIC Condemns Israel’s Decision to Expand Settlements in occupied Jerusalem
Qatar News Agency | Article Date: 14:31 2011/08/14 | Article ID: 0044 Jeddah, August 14 (QNA) – Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has expressed strong condemnation of the Israeli government”s decision to ratify the building of thousands of new settlement units in East Jerusalem, warning that the continued settlement [...]
#DissolveThePA ~ by Yasir M. Tineh
PA stands for Palestinian Authority, The legislative body currently governing the West Bank. August 14, 2011 by Yasir M. Tineh Headed by Mahmoud Abbas the PA is recognized as the government in control of Palestinian security and civilian affairs. The PA is considered by many of not being an independant Palestinian force but rather just another proxy of Israeli [...]
Russia slams Israeli decision to build new housing units in O. Jerusalem
[ 13/08/2011 - 09:29 AM ] MOSCOW, (PIC)– Russia criticized on Friday the Israeli government’s endorsement of building 1600 new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem, warning that it would lead to worsening the already “explosive Middle East peace process”. The Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Ukashević said in a statement that the decision to build [...]
Area C (which is 60% of the West Bank ) feels the effects of Israel’s power
John Lyons, Middle East correspondent | From: The Australian | August 13, 2011 12:00AM Palestinian children scramble for food rations during Ramadan in the West Bank city of Hebron. Picture: AP Source: AP ONLY 5km separates the offices of two mayors on one of the planet’s most contested pieces of land, but they may as [...]
Egyptian FM: Building new housing units in OJ “big crime”
[ 13/08/2011 - 12:16 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Egyptian foreign minister Mohammed Kamel Amr said that what Israel was doing in occupied Jerusalem was provoking the feelings not only of Palestinians but of all Arabs and Muslims. He said, in a press statement on Friday night before leaving Berlin at conclusion of a visit, that [...]
Building A Home in the Village of Thabrah
PNN – Palestine News Network -13.08.11 – 13:45 PNN – Thabrah – A group of 12 young people from the United States and Canada, volunteering with the North American organization Hope Equals, helps rebuild a house for a Palestinian family in the village of Thabrah near Bethlehem. Led by project manager Mariano Avila, Hope Equals [...]
Qurei slams settlement expansion as ‘recklessness’
Maan News Agency | Aug 12, 2011 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli government’s “greed and recklessness” have reached a point that cannot be condoned or tolerated, senior PLO official Ahmed Qurei said Friday. Its plan to build 4,300 housing units “as an excuse” for solving the housing problems would expand illegal settlements in the West [...]
Envoy: World must act against ‘colonization campaign’
Maan News Agency | Aug 12, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour on Friday urged the international community to compel Israel to end its colonization campaign if it really believes in the two-state solution, reports said. In letters to the UN secretary-general and the presidents of the Security Council and [...]
UN slams Israel’s settlement go-ahead
PressTV - Fri Aug 12, 2011 6:46AM GMT Israel’s illegal settlement units being constructed in the West Bank. (File photo) The United Nations has condemned Tel Aviv’s approval for the construction of 1,600 illegal units in the occupied territories and called the move a “provocative action.” “If confirmed, this provocative action undermines ongoing efforts [...]
The Tent Protests in Israel
By Jeff Halper | Palestine Chronicle | Aug 11, 2011 The demonstrations currently roiling Israel constitute a grassroots challenge to Israel’s neo-liberal regime. Beginning as an uprising of the middle classes – especially young people who have trouble finding affordable housing – it has spread to the working class, the poor, and the Arab [...]
Jewish settlers seize Palestinian homes by force
[ 11/08/2011 - 01:44 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers forced their way into Palestinian homes in the Old City of Al-Khalil and expelled their inhabitants out at dawn Thursday, eyewitnesses said. They said that the settlers used digging tools to force their way into those homes overlooking the settlement outposts in the city. The [...]
Israel Occupation Authority flattens Palestinian home in occupied Jerusalem
[ 11/08/2011 - 01:36 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) razed the home of Majed Al-Rajabi in Baka’a area to the southwest of occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday due to the usual pretext of lack of construction permit. Rajabi said that the IOA glued a demolition order on his 60 square meter [...]