• Open letter: The separation barrier in Bil’in

    Update and call for help In a high-profile ruling of 4th September 2007, the Israeli Supreme Court concluded that the already built Separation Barrier in the West Bank village of Bil’in is illegal. The Court noted that the existing route was designed to accommodate plans for the future expansion of the settlement of Modi’in Illit…

  • J-Post: Ofra rabbi permits Shabbat construction

    To view original article, published in the Jerusalem Post on the 12th June, click here In a dramatic halachic ruling, the rabbi of Ofra, a settlement in the West Bank northeast of Ramallah, has ruled that Palestinian construction workers can build houses in the settlement on Shabbat, in order to “establish facts on the ground”…

  • Brutal attack in Susiya

    On Monday 9 June six masked Jewish settlers from the nearby outpost of Havat Ya’ir, armed with automatic weapons and cudgels, attacked a small group of Palestinians, mainly women, in their tent village in the Susiya location of the South Hebron Hills. Video from B’tselem Susiya, which lies within sight of the West Bank’s southern…

  • Alt-arch: Hearing in the Supreme Court

    Update ‘From Shiloah to Silwan group’. To view website click here On Wednesday, the 18th of June at 11 a.m., there will be a hearing in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem regarding the archaeological excavations under the houses of the Silwan village in East Jerusalem. Your presence is important! The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) financed…

  • Nobel Peace Laureate Calls for Global Condemnation of Israeli Army Actions against Orphans in Hebron

    “This behavior is immoral, unethical and illegal” “What are the UK and Tony Blair dong about this?” Mairead Maguire, Irish Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, recently visited the Orphanages of Hebron while on a visit to the Occupied Territories to support non violent resistance there. Despite her experience with many suffering peoples, she said that she…