by Ernesto in Beit Ummar Today, Friday July 7th, 2006, at noon, over 300 farmers and residents of the Palestinian villages of Beit Ummar and Halhoul held Friday prayers together on their land that has been ravaged by Israeli bulldozers ...
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Basque and Bil’in Demonstrators Keep the Beat
by Zadie and Jennie in Bil’in On July 7th, at 13:00 the people of Bil’in, joined by a Basque Nationalist musical group and International and Israeli activists, started their weekly rally to protest the ongoing construction of the illegal Apartheid ...
Read More »Beit Ummar and Halhul Farmers Will Pray on their Destroyed Land.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tomorrow, Friday July 7th, at noon, the people from the villages of Beit Ummar and Halhul will gather together to pray on the land that has been destroyed by bulldozers in the last few days. They will ...
Read More »Bil’in: Palestinian Villagers Move into Israeli Settlement!
UPDATE, 6 pm: The three Palestinian families have been evicted by the Israeli police and were taken away in Border Police vehicles to the other side of the Apartheid Wall. Mohammed Katib said that they had an order to remove ...
Read More »Bil’in to Commemorate International Court of Justice Ruling Against the Wall
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On July 7th, at 1pm, the people of Bil’in joined by international and Israeli supporters will demonstrate against the apartheid wall in commemoration of the Second Anniversary of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that the ...
Read More »Ynet: “Look who’s been kidnapped”
Hundreds of Palestinian ‘suspects’ have been kidnapped from their homes and will never stand trial Israeli reservist Arik Diamant | Ynet It’s the wee hours of the morning, still dark outside. A guerrilla force comes out of nowhere to kidnap ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: “UN aid chief warns Gaza is on the verge of humanitarian crisis”
by the Associated Press, 30th June Gaza is three days away from a deadly humanitarian crisis unless Israel promptly restores fuel and electricity to the densely populated area after its offensive to free an abducted soldier, the United Nations aid ...
Read More »Independent: “Gaza: ‘The children wake up screaming. I am worried it will damage them'”
Palestinian boy looks at the destruction of a school in Gaza after an early morning Israeli strike July 5th. (AP Photo/Laura Leon) by Donald Macintyre, 3rd of July Mahmoud Mughari speaks bluntly. “I normally wash and shower twice a day. ...
Read More »Bulldozers Stopped, Palestinian Activist Still Arrested
by Em and Zadie in Beit Ummar UPDATE, 6th July: As far as we have been able to acsertain, Musa Abu-Marya still remains a captive of the Shabak. Download video here Yesterday in Beit Ummar, a village of 15,000 in ...
Read More »Robert Novak: “Holy Land Christians blame Israel”
by Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, 3rd of July On June 19, two young members of Congress received an extraordinary letter from Jerusalem. On behalf of Christian churches in the Holy Land, they were told a House resolution they were ...
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