• CPT: Israeli Army Destroys 9 Water Tanks in Palestinian Village

    6 July 2011 | Christian Peacemaker Team, Hebron Late Tuesday morning, around 11:30, a convoy of Israeli Army, civil administration, and border police arrived in the Palestinian village of Amniyr accompanying a flat bed truck with a front end loader and a backhoe. Israeli settlers having a picnic at the settlement outpost next to the Susiya archaeological site looked on as the army destroyed nine large tanks of water and a tent. Amniyr is a small…

  • 12 people left homeless in Khallet Sakariya

    5 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At 6 am this morning the Israeli military demolished a water cistern and one house containing 12 persons, 6 of whom are children, in Khallet Sakariya. The military arrived with 13 cars and more than 55 soldiers as well as a bulldozer. The family had not received a warning of the demolition. The children living in the house were deeply traumatized by the event and one was…

  • Welcome to Palestine – if you can get in

    5 July 2011 | Sam Bahour, The Guardian Palestinians have globally touted an array of rights that Israel systematically denies. There is the right of return, the right of freedom of movement, the right to water, the right to education, the right to enter (not to be confused with refugees’ right to return) and so on. But the right to receive visitors, or lack thereof? This is the most recent addition. The prohibition on freely receiving…

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