2 April 2008 Israeli forces imposed collective punishment on the village of Saffa, following an axe attack in a nearby settlement that left a Settler child dead and another injured. At around 1:30pm, dozens of soldiers entered the village, declaring ...
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Thousands of dunums confiscated for Israeli settler road near Nablus
Ma’an News Agency 2 April 2009 Israeli authorities issued orders to confiscate more than one thousand dunums of Palestinian lands of the village of Qaryut south of Nablus, head of the villages and municipal affairs office in Nablus Ghassan Daghlas ...
Read More »List of actions in Palestine for Land Day and Global BDS Day
Stop the Wall | Global BDS Movement 30 March 2009 The people in Palestine are mobilizing for the 32nd annual commemoration of Land Day, happening March 30. Land Day marks the date of the Palestinian demonstration that occurred in the ...
Read More »Settlers using government transition to step up construction
Amos Harel | Ha’aretz 29 March 2009 Construction activity on West Bank settlements has increased in the transition period between the February general election and the formation of the new government, Haaretz has learned. One notable example is the extensive ...
Read More »Palestinians benefit as Israel-Turkey ties sour
Jonathan Cook | The National 25 March 2009 A legal battle being waged by Palestinian families to stop the takeover of their neighbourhood in East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers has received a major fillip from the recent souring of relations ...
Read More »Homes in southern Nablus slated for eviction
8 March 2009 Six homes in the village of A’qraba have received eviction orders. 14 homes in the area received similar orders in 2008. Among those houses slated for demolition is an electricity station, a mosque, a well and two houses ...
Read More »European Union: Israel annexing East Jerusalem
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 7 March 2009 A confidential EU report accuses the Israeli government of using settlement expansion, house demolitions, discriminatory housing policies and the West Bank barrier as a way of “actively pursuing the illegal annexation” of ...
Read More »Video from Bil’in: Olive Tree Chaining
Residents of Bil’in village, together with international and Israeli activists, chain themselves to olive trees that are to be uprooted to make way for the Israeli apartheid wall. The wall is currently being constructed in many areas of Palestine. For ...
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