Justice is difficult to come by in the middle of an illegal military occupation. For some, with the legal and financial resources and freedom to pursue it, there is a slim chance that they might see some limited response. For ...
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The Ariel Finger and its Impacts
by Nijmie of the International Women’s Peace Service Ariel settlement – the strategy then and now The settlement of Ariel was established in 1978. Its founding population of forty settlers has burgeoned due to its strategic location (close to Tel ...
Read More »Threat to divest is Church tool in Israeli fight
by Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times August 6th, 2005 www.catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=454 The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. announced Friday that it would press four American corporations to stop providing military equipment and technology to Israel for use in the occupation of the ...
Read More »10 Palestinians injured by Israeli soldiers in Liban Al-Gharbi
This morning, ten Palestinians were injured when soldiers opened fire in Liban Al-Gharbi, near Rantis – 15 km south of Qalqilya. The conflict began six days ago, when a group of 25 settlers and soldiers brought heavy machinery onto a ...
Read More »Bil’in villagers build a wall of their own to protest land annexation
By ISMedia Villagers from Bil’in on Friday, along with Israeli and international peace activists and Internationals dressed in black, will participate in a demonstration against the Israel’s Annexation Wall, currently under constructed in Bil’in. Completion of the Wall could mean ...
Read More »Who is terrorizing whom?
Photo courtesy of Operation Dove (At-Tuwani, Southern Hebron Hills, Palestinian Occupied Territories) IDF soldiers, without respecting Israeli or international laws, assault a Palestinian shepherd. The soldiers claimed he was allowing his sheep to graze on land under military closure. August ...
Read More »Through the tunnel of oppression and into the sweet spring air of a free country
by Devon I must share with you this image that has been running through my mind for the last six days. It happened Monday, August 1, in the West Bank village of Kfir Haris. There was a completely nonviolent demonstration ...
Read More »The Disengagement and the Palestinians
PHOTO BY: Nir Elias/Reuters Opponents to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan (L) dance in front of Israeli soldiers (R) as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon July 20, 2005. Many of the thousands of rightist protesters massed ...
Read More »Hundreds trapped in Ramallah as all exit points closed for afternoon
Soldiers set up a “flying checkpoint” outside Ramallah, near the village of Surda on Sunday. By Sarita and Andrew Ambulances, commerce, people traveling to work or heading home were all brought to a halt Sunday in Ramallah as Israeli soldiers ...
Read More »Checkpoints destroy Palestinian economy
Street theatre and demonstration in Deir Ballut By Sarita August 4 Deir Ballut villagers were joined today by 30 International and Israeli activists in a demonstration against the military check point blocking the entrance to their village. Deir Ballut, southwest ...
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