Tag Archives: Jerusalem

By: Gideon Levy September 28th, 2007 It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than in many ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the night of April 5th, 2003, in the west bank city of Jenin, Brian Avery from North Carolina was shot in the face by machine-gun fire from an approaching Israeli Army APC. He did not die, ...

By Meron Rapoport, Haaretz Correspondent The Israel Lands Administration (ILA) is working together with the Ateret Cohanim association to wrest from Palestinian landowners control of 30 dunams (7.5 acres) of land in East Jerusalem and to transfer it to the ...

July 17th, 2007. The below report was written by Summer Camp participant: P.R. The decision was made. We as the summer camp now officially have two houses to reconstruct. We all woke up this morning with a day of brick ...

ICAHD BUILDING CAMP 2007: Day 1 (15.07.2007) I am an Israeli citizen and have never been to the West Bank before, but this morning I woke up in the West Bank, along with 25 strangers, with the goal of accomplishing ...

Monday July 16th, 2007. Four members of the ISM have taken part in a work camp in Anata (Jerusalem area), organized by ICAHD, with the support of other organizations. The goal of this summer work camp is to rebuild a ...

from ICAHD On June 11, 2007, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) announced the launching of a campaign to rebuild the home of every Palestinian family whose house is demolished over the coming year. The launch was held in ...

A “March of Return” to the Destroyed Villages of Latroun by the ISM Media Crew On Saturday, June 16, Palestinians from the destroyed villages of Latroun will once again return to their land. They will be joined by Israeli and ...

by Ronnie Kasrils | Mail & Guardian Travelling into Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza Strip, which I visited recently, is like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency. It is chilling to pass through the myriad checkpoints ...

Al Jazeera: Israel plans East Jerusalem enclave from AlJazeera.Net, 10 May 2007 Saeb Erekat condemned Israel’s plan to build 20,000 homes in Arab east Jerusalem, Photo: AP Israel has announced plans to build 20,000 new homes on the outskirts of ...