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Idhna: Family faces a third home demolition by Israel

Posted on: May 8, 2012
Idhna: Family faces a third home demolition by Israel

by Sunny

8 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

On Monday, May 7 in the southern West Bank village of Idhna, Mohamed Temezi was busy working on his caravan home. Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrived unexpectedly and subjected him and his wife Faizah Temezi to a 3 hour ordeal in which they were detained, and beaten. Their new home was threatened with demolition.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) provided the caravan for the Temezi family. They have experienced … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2013
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Israeli army demolish houses and wells in Kufr ad Dik

Posted on: April 17, 2012

by Aura and Robin 

17 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Early Monday morning the IOF came to Kufr ad-Dik and demolished three houses and three water wells, along with several tents belonging to Bedouin families nearby. Settlements Bruchin, Alei Zahav, and Pedu’el are expanding quickly, claiming more and more Palestinian land and making life for the people of Kufr ad-Dik impossible.

The soldiers came to the olive groves of Kufr ad-Dik at 7am, armed with ten military jeeps and a bulldozer. After surrounding the area, they began destroying the three houses and water wells which had served as a home and work sheds to … Continue reading


Updated on April 17, 2012
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Demolitions: Israel’s path of destruction through the Jordan Valley

Posted on: March 27, 2012
Demolitions: Israel’s path of destruction through the Jordan Valley

by Andreas
27 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
Families and their livestock are left without shelter as Israeli Occupation Forces soldiers and bulldozers leave a path of destruction El Hemmi, al-Farisiya and Khirbet Homse in the Jordan Valley
On the 26th of March several houses and animal barricades were demolished in the small communities of El Hemmi, Al Farisiya and Khirbet Homse in the Jordan Valley.  The convoy of military vehicles started out in El Hemmi in the morning and  continued to Al Farisiya and ended in Homse close to Hamra Checkpoint … Continue reading


Updated on May 19, 2013
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Jordan Valley: Three families invaded by one hundred Israeli soldiers in Al Jiftlik

Posted on: March 17, 2012

by Kim

 17 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

On March 15th  at 16:00 we got a call about three house demolitions in the village of Al Jiftlik, near the Jordan Valley. We threw ourselves into the first public transportation vehicle to take us to the village. It was dusk when we came to the outskirts of the village where we met our contact person.

He quickly fixed up a car, and we got straight to the first house which was adjacent to the highway. Here we found two families standing before the ruins of their homes. They are seven people in … Continue reading


Updated on March 17, 2012
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Idhna: A family without windows

Posted on: March 12, 2012
Without windows in Idna - Click here for more photos

by Peige

12 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

After three years of marriage Amani and Hussein Batran wanted a house of their own, somewhere to raise their two children, 4 year old Khalil and 3 year old Layali.   They took out two loans from the bank and construction began. Now, three years later, the house is still unfinished and no new work has been done for over a year. One year ago, shortly after the Batran family moved into their nearly finished house, they received an order from the Israeli military forbidding further construction, followed seven months later by … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2013
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The strangulation of a village

Posted on: March 10, 2012
The strangulation of a village

by Sylvia

10 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Sheikh Nasri looks resigned as he describes his home as “the most terrorised village in the country”. With 34,000 uprooted trees in the last two years and some 4,800 dunams of land stolen, the village of Al Jab’a has little to smile about.

Bedouin camp given until the 15th March to demolish their home

Eighteen of the one hundred houses in Jaba have demolition orders on them, their inhabitants unsure of when the Israeli army … Continue reading


Updated on May 21, 2013
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Al Walaja: Tunneling to get home

Posted on: March 8, 2012
Sherinne Alaraj of the local Popular Committee stands at the site of the tunnel

by Ramon Garcia

8 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Sherinne Alaraj of the local Popular Committee stands at the site of the tunnel

 

Some Palestinians and Internationals gathered in the village of Al Walajeh on International Women’s Day to show solidarity to Omar and his family, especially his wife ,whose health has suffered from Israeli occupation in the small village.

Sherinne Alaraj of the local Popular Committee explained to internationals the circumstances of the family. Over a dozen individuals toured with her, learning of the family’s forced separation from their … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2013
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Idhna: Tent replaces home as local resists illegal Israeli land confiscations

Posted on: February 16, 2012
Idhna: Tent replaces home as local resists illegal Israeli land confiscations

by Sylvia
16 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
Idhna has suffered considerably since the Israeli occupation, particularly due to the construction of the segregation wall and some 3,000  dunums of land which has been stolen since the second Intifada. Idhna is surrounded by the Israeli settlements of Adora and Telem to the northeast, a bypass road that runs through the northern parts of the town, and the segregation wall that borders Idhna to the north and the west.
According to municipal … Continue reading


Updated on February 16, 2012
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South Hebron Hills: IDF demolition in Saadet Tha’lah and Ar Rakeez

Posted on: February 16, 2012
Click here for more photos, courtesy of Operation Dove

16 February 2012 | Operation Dove

At-Tuwani – On February 15th 2012, the Israeli Army demolished five buildings in the Palestinian village of Saadet Tha’lah and destroyed a water tank and tore down 50 trees in the Palestinian village of Ar Rakeez.


At around 12 a.m. two bulldozers and three vehicles of DCO (Disctrict Coordination Office) raided in the village of Saadet Tha’lah, escorted by four jeeps of IDF (Israeli Defense Force). One house, two water tanks and two stables for the flocks were demolished. The inhabitants said they … Continue reading


Updated on February 16, 2012
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Jordan Valley: Demolitions and arrests of two Palestinians

Posted on: February 15, 2012
Click here for more photos - Photos courtesy of Rana Hamaden, 2012

by Satu and John

15 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
On February 14, 2012, in the small village of Twael of the Aqraba district, southeast of Nablus in the Jordan Valley, the home of the Bunni Jaber family was destroyed by an Israeli backhoe protected by 20 soldiers in four military vehicles. Two men from the family were arrested – Ayman Bunni Jaber, aged 36, and Rafie Bunni Jaber, aged 30. The family’s tractor was also confiscated by the Israeli authorities.
The Bunni Jaber house was located along the green, rocky hills that dominate the landscape … Continue reading


Updated on February 17, 2012
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