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Resistance begins, and so does the repression

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 ...

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Home Rebuilding Camp in Bethlehem

Holy Land Trust in Partnership with The Israeli Committee Against House Demolition (ICAHD) 1 July 2007 – 15 July 2007 Purpose of the Camp: The main activity of the camp is to rebuild a home demolished by the Israeli military ...

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Open Gaza’s Borders to Prevent a Humanitarian Crisis

Urgent Appeal from Israeli Human Rights Groups to Israeli Defense Minister: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 June 2007 As we write these lines, hundreds of refugees are trapped between Erez crossing, which is sealed, and the Hamas military force preventing their ...

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Protesters take Rubber Bullets to Head and Stomach

by Eva, 15 June 2007 Video by Emad Bornat Three demonstrators were injured by rubber bullets in another of the weekly non-violent demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall and land grab in Bil’in village. A 29 year old American journalist was ...

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Palestinian Farmer killed in Tulkarem

For Immediate Release 14 June The Israeli army is currently invading the village of Saida, in the Tulkarem district of the West Bank. According to local sources, Israeli special forces were occupying an old, abandoned Palestinian house in the center ...

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Amnesty: Enduring Occupation

Amnesty International releases report on 40th Anniversary of Israel’s Occupation of the Palestinian Territories Marking the 40th year of Occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, human rights group Amnesty International released a 45 page report citing gross ...

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16 Palestinian children made homeless today

2 more home demolitions in the Negev by Yeela Raanan, Regional Council for Unrecognized Negev Arab Villages Today, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 8:00am hundreds of police people, accompanied by a chopper and two bulldozers, came the village of Tarabin ...

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CounterPunch: Sailing to Gaza

An Interview with Greta Berlin By SILVIA CATTORI, 7 June 2007 Greta Berlin, 66 years old, is a businesswoman from Los Angeles, CA. She is the mother of two Palestinian-American children and has been to the occupied territories twice in ...

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