• Israeli police demolish tent of evicted Sheikh Jarrah family for the fifth time

    14 December 2009 On Monday 14 December 2009 at 10am, heavily armed Israeli police came to the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem and demolished the Gawi family tent for the fifth time in two months. As the winter rain started to fall, the Gawi family members found themselves once again on the street without shelter. The Palestinian family’s possessions were confiscated and removed in police pick-up trucks. The Gawi family has lived in a…

  • Demonstrators to protest arrest of prominent grassroots activist Wa’el Al Faqeeh Abu As Sabe

    13 December 2009 For immediate release: A demonstration will be held outside Jelemeh Prison in Haifa at 12pm, Monday 14 December 2009, to protest the arrest of prominent grassroots Palestinian activist Wa’el Al Faqeeh Abu As Sabe. Al Faqeeh, renowned throughout the Nablus region for his tireless campaigning and non-violent action against the Israeli occupation, was kidnapped from his home by Israeli Occupation Forces in the night of Tuesday, 8 December. Al Faqeeh is now being…

  • Notes from Area C / The right to return to the caves

    Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 11 December 2009 This is a story of return, the return of Palestinians to their land in Area C. Just over a month ago, on November 8, two out of 15 families returned to Khirbet Bir el-Eid, in south Mount Hebron. By yesterday their number had reached eight. “Everyone waited to see if they would kill us before they decided whether to return,” joked Ismail I’dra, 63, as he worked energetically to…

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