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A wave of demolitions as Israel targets the Jordan Valley

Posted on: November 30, 2011
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by Lydia

30 November 2011 | International Solidarity Day, West Bank

This morning at 7am the Israeli army entered the village of El Beida in the northern Jordan Valley with  10 military jeeps and one bulldozer. Israeli military proceeded towards Abu Tarek Fracka’s land where he houses a honey farm on the land where his father’s house once stood.

The bee farm was shared by 50 families. Previous harvest has been known to produce 900 kilos of honey with recent prices of honey, yielding 60-100 NIS per kilo. Abu Tarek is in possession of paper work permitting him to build on this … Continue reading


Updated on December 1, 2011
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International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in the no go zone

Posted on: November 30, 2011
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by Nathan Stuckey

30 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Today, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.  This day commemorates the racist and colonialist proposal of the United Nations to partition Palestine in 1947.  All over the world, people stood in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle today.  In Beit Hanoun, today, like every Tuesday for the last three years, the popular struggle raised its voice against the occupation.  Against the no go zone which surrounds Gaza, which makes the refugees of 1948 … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Gaza: Rebuilding from rubble

Posted on: November 29, 2011
“He who builds his house here puts his sweat and blood into it, laying stone after stone. When it becomes rubble, it is devastating and personal for him...” (Photo: Ruqaya Izzidien) - Click here for more images

by Ruqaya Izzidien

29 November 2011 | Al Akhbar English

Despite Israel’s blockade on building materials entering the Gaza Strip, local entrepreneurs have come up with a way to turn destruction into reconstruction by recycling rubble into construction material.

The bedroom of Nasser Abu Said features two-meter holes punched by Israeli rockets and his front door is splattered with deep gashes from the … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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‘A Needle in the Binding’: The legacy of Palestinian prisoner self-education in Israeli prisons

Posted on: November 29, 2011
Books in the Prisoner’s Section of the Nablus Municipality Library (Photo: Rana Way)

by Ben Lorber and Khalil Ashour
29 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
On the third floor of the Nablus Municipality Library, there sits a room of over 8,000 books set apart from the rest. Many of these books are very old and tattered; many of them, in lieu of a normal face, are adorned with images taken from old National Geographic or Reader’s Digest magazines. Some are laboriously written by hand. The spines of the books show a variety of languages, from Arabic to English, French and Spanish. The New English Bible is flanked by The Great American Revolution of … Continue reading


Updated on December 6, 2011
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Nablus comes together for International Solidarity Day

Posted on: November 29, 2011
Nablus comes together for International Solidarity Day

by Wahed Rejol

29 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Today in the Occupied West Bank, Palestinians and internationals gathered in Nablus to participate in an international day of support for Palestine.

In 1977 the United Nations General Assembly voted to declare November 29 as the The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.  On that day in 1947 the same body voted to partition Palestine as part of UN resolution 181.  The following year the state of Israel was created.  64 years later Palestinians have not regained their freedom, and refugees have been unable to return to their native land…. Continue reading


Updated on December 1, 2011
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Jerusalem: Sumarin family receives news that eviction is temporarily delayed

Posted on: November 28, 2011
Members of the Sumarin family awaits court decision with solidarity activists from Japan, Sweden, Spain, US, and Israel.

by Wahed Rejol

28 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Today in the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood of Silwan, the Sumarin family awaited a ruling from Israeli court on the pending eviction from their home.

Israeli news reported this week that the current eviction set for this week had been delayed. But according to the family, their attorney had not yet received an official ruling. Until today.

According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, approximately 60% of the houses have received demolition notices in Silwan – a town in East Jerusalem with a population of 55,000 … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Beit Hannina: House demolitions without warning

Posted on: November 27, 2011
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25 November 2011  | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

At 11 AM this Thursday the 24 of November, Mohammed Ka’abne and his family of Beit Hannina, were shocked by the arrival at their doorstep of an Israeli military unit accompanied by several police officers and two bulldozers.

Without issuing any kind of eviction order, or notification to the family, they proceeded to demolish the two houses of Mohammed’s sons and their families, and the tent where Mohammed himself has lived for five years.

When the the bulldozers arrived at the … Continue reading


Updated on November 30, 2011
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Following night raids, Nabi Saleh continues to march for justice

Posted on: November 27, 2011
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by Aida Gerard

25 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The Occupation Forces invaded An Nabi Saleh village three times injuring several people by shooting directly at demonstrators with tear gas canisters and rubber coated steel bullets on Friday, November 25th.

Three people were arrested Wednesday in a night time raid earlier in the week. Rami Tamimi, 33, Uday Tamimi, 20, and Muatasim Tamimi, 16 years old were all taken away. The Israeli military justified the arrest Uday and Muatasim because they will be used as witnesses against Bassem Tamimi in his court hearing next week. Bassem Tamimi  is one of the local … Continue reading


Updated on November 30, 2011
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A day at sea with Gaza’s fishermen

Posted on: November 26, 2011
Israeli occupation navy forces harassing fishermen (Photo: Lydia de Leeuw, A Second Glance) - Click here for more images

by Lydia de Leeuw

26 November 2011 | A Second Glance


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Thanksgiving in Gaza

Posted on: November 26, 2011
Layla and her daughters with the turkey in Faraheen (Photo: Radhika Sainath, Notes from Behind the Blockade) - Click here for more images

by Radhika Sainath

25 November 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade

It all started with a simple question from Jabar, a Palestinian farmer from Faraheen, during Eid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice.

“Is there an American eid (holiday) where you slaughter an animal?” he asked Nathan, a colleague here in Gaza, a few weeks ago.

Thanksgiving and turkeys came to mind.

And so, I found myself celebrating “Thanksgiving,” Gazan-style, this afternoon in the small, southern Gazan village.

Nathan painstakingly put together a variety of ingredients over … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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