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Summary of nine days of demolitions and displacement in Al Maleh, Jordan Valley

Posted on: January 30, 2013
Summary of nine days of demolitions and displacement in Al Maleh, Jordan Valley

29 January 2013 | OCHA Displacement Working Group, edited by International Solidarity Movement, Al Maleh, Occupied Palestine

On 17 January, Israeli occupation forces demolished 47 (sic) residential and other structures in Hamamat Al Maleh area, displacing 60 people, more than half of them children. On 19 January, Israeli occupation forces confiscated basic emergency tents that had been provided to the families in the aftermath of the demolitions. On 21 January evening, while villagers tried rebuilding their homes, army returned and forced them to stop. A few days … Continue reading


Updated on January 30, 2013
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Important Supreme Court session on the future of the Palestinian village of Susiya

Posted on: January 30, 2013
Important Supreme Court session on the future of the Palestinian village of Susiya

29 January 2013 | Rabbis for Human Rights

On Thursday 31st January the Supreme Court will hold two sessions regarding two petitions affecting the future of the Palestinian village Susiya. One will discuss the organization Regavim’s petition to expedite the demolition of most of the village. The other petition seeks to prevent the villagers’ remaining lands from being rendered off limits to them.

Susiya, a Palestinian village in the south of the West Bank, which is not connected to … Continue reading


Updated on January 30, 2013
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Do not let settlers expel us from our home in Sheikh Jarrah

Posted on: January 30, 2013
Do not let settlers expel us from our home in Sheikh Jarrah

Update on 29 January by ISM: There is still imminent threat of eviction hovering upon the Shamane family. The family was given a brief reprieve of two months at the last minute when the Jerusalem District Court ordered the eviction delayed until 1st March 2013.  There will be a weekly protest vigil at 3 pm on Friday 1st February and in the following weeks. Organizers call for supporters to come and join.

28 December 2012 | Mondoweiss, Occupied Palestine

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Updated on January 30, 2013
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Protest march and bike ride in South Hebron Hills firing zone [Update: Video added]

Posted on: December 9, 2012
Protest march and bike ride in South Hebron Hills firing zone [Update: Video added]

by Team Khalil

8 December 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Close to one hundred protesters marched and rode bicycles in a peaceful march through several villages in South Hebron Hills on Saturday 8 December. The purpose of the symbolic protest was to draw attention to and oppose the eviction orders issued to eight villages in the area. Native Palestinians in the area near one thousand and have lived there for hundreds of years. The march started in At Tuwani and ended in Al Fahkeit.

Together with seven other villages, the village of Al Fahkeit is inside what the Israeli government considers … Continue reading


Updated on December 10, 2012
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House demolitions and forced displacments in Area C

Posted on: September 2, 2012
Palestinian children n front of their destroyed home in Zenuta, August 28 2012 (Operation Dove)

By Abu Sarah

2 September 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Demolishing tents donated by the UN

Caterpillar Bulldozer demolishing tents donated to the residents of Susiya as emergency aid by the U.N.

On August 28 Israeli occupation forces demolished tents donated by the United Nations (UN) in the Palestinian village of Susiya in the South Hebron hills. This is the second … Continue reading


Updated on September 6, 2012
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Jericho: Palestinian farmers ordered to leave land

Posted on: September 2, 2012
Jericho: Palestinian farmers ordered to leave land

By Liza Ennab

2 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Olive harvest in the Jordan Valley

Reuters reports thats Israeli authorities have given Palestinian farmers living in Jericho in the West Bank an order to uproot palm trees they have grown and leave the agricultural lands within 45 days. The orders came in the form of letters sent to the farmers in what is known as “Area C” and gave the farmers a 7 October 2012 deadline to vacate their land.

Shawkat Housheyeh, … Continue reading


Updated on September 5, 2012
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Sheikh Jarrah: ‘My Neighbourhood’

Posted on: August 4, 2012

By Patrick Keddie
4 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement
The Israeli authorities’ attempts to ethnically displace Palestinians from East Jerusalem have intensified greatly in recent years; in some areas, such as Sheikh Jarrah, eviction notices have been handed out to nearly every Palestinian family. My Neighbourhood, a recent short documentary film produced by Just Vision, examines the struggles against mass Palestinian eviction and asks important questions of how to resist.
The film focuses on Sheikh Jarrah, an area less than 5 minutes’ walk from the opulent American Colony Hotel (favourite haunt of foreign journalists, NGO workers … Continue reading


Updated on August 4, 2012
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Live updates from Sheikh Jarrah – Visit ISM’s Night Watch blog

Posted on: December 14, 2011
Live updates from Sheikh Jarrah – Visit ISM’s Night Watch blog

14 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

ISM has been following the situation of the Al Kurd family from Sheikh Jarrah since 2009 and has kept a presence in the garden of their home.


On December 4th  Nabil Al Kurd and his mother, accompanied by international and Israeli activists went to the Court of Magistrate in Jerusalem and sat in the courtroom. After 40 minutes of intense argument between the lawyer of the family and the lawyer representing the Jewish committee, the decision left the Al … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2013
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Khan Al-Ahmar: Forced expulsion of Bedouins from Area C

Posted on: December 13, 2011

by Alistair George
13 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
“From the 1970′s until today, the Israelis used to demolish our tents and houses but not to deport us”  says Abu Hamis, a member of the Jahalin Bedouin tribe . “We used to rebuild our places but the new policy which they are adopting is that they want to not only demolish the houses, but to deport us from the area.”
Abu Hamis lives in the tinyvillageof Khan Al-Ahmar, located in the arid, rocky East Jerusalem periphery where steep mountain slopes plummet to the Jordan Valley and … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Sheikh Jarrah: Al Kurd family faces 30 day deadline

Posted on: December 11, 2011
Illegal, Zionist settlers have decorated the Al Kurd home with Israeli flags.

by Samar and Meriem 

11 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
ISM has been following the situation of the Al Kurd family from Sheikh Jarrah since 2009 and has kept a presence in the garden of their home.
The Al Kurd family is of five other families targeted by these evications.  The Fawziya Al Kurd family was evicted 9 November 2008. And the Ghawi and Hanoun families were evicted on 3 August 2009.
The Nabil Al Kurd family was evicted from one of their houses on 3 November 2009, and settlers finally moved in on … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2013
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