Category: Reports

  • Activists work to stop wall construction and uprooting of olive trees in Beit Jala

    Beit Jala Popular Committee 4 March 2010 In the early morning on March 2, 2010, Israeli bulldozers started uprooting ancient olive trees in the garden of a Palestinian family in the town of Beit Jala, North-West of Bethlehem, in order to make room for the construction of yet another section of the Apartheid Wall. Wednesday…

  • Hebron’s women march in protest to the Judaization of the Ibrahimi mosque

    3 March 2010 Today over a 100 Palestinian women marched Hebron’s streets to resist Ibrahim’s mosque becoming an Israeli Heritage Site. The Women’s Empowerment Project gathered women from Hebron district to march from Hebron’s Muncipality down to the mosque. The exclusively female crowd chanted and held banners while peacefully, but decisively demonstrating. At the checkpoint,…

  • Palestinian Organizer Assaulted at an Israeli Checkpoint

    Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee 2 March 2010 Mahmoud Zwahre, a prominent member of the alMaasara Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, was brutally assaulted at the Israeli Container Checkpoint near Bethlehem this morning. Zwahre was on his way to a Ramallah meeting when his car was stopped. He was held for nearly two hours,…

  • International call to action in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah

    Just Jerusalem 1 March 2010 WHAT: A global call to action in solidarity with the residents of Sheikh Jarrah WHERE: Around the globe and into the streets WHEN: 6 March 2010 WHY: Sheikh Jarrah is a unique community in occupied East Jerusalem. The plight of this community is emblematic of the larger Palestinian struggle for…

  • With my life and soul I will free you Palestine-Demonstrators in Gaza

    Internatonal Solidarity Movement 1 March 2010 Thirty activists from the Local Initiative Beit Hannoun and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) participated in the weekly demonstration asking for Palestinian land to be returned to its rightful owners. The activists gathered at the site of the University College for Agriculture which now lies in rubble following air…