• Cementing Apartheid in the South Hebron Hills

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The villagers of Qawawis woke up Wednesday morning to workers building a meter-high cement wall along the road that runs through their land between the illegal Israeli settlement of Susya and Hebron. The mini-wall designed to keep Palestinian cars from accessing the settler-only road will have the effect of preventing the villagers…

  • Two Houses Demolished in Brukin, Salfit

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30 May 2006: Two houses were demolished by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the village of Brukin, Salfit, West Bank, on Tuesday morning, 30 May, 2006. They were among 70 houses that have received demolition orders, according to Brukin’s Mayor Ekremah Samara. The village, which has lost 8000 dunums of land…

  • Ha’aretz: “Collateral Damage: An Entire Gaza Family”

    by Gideon Levy. Ha’aretz, Wednesday, May 31 2006 The entire family of Hamdi Aman, a 28-year-old Palestinian from Gaza who spent his youth in Tel Aviv’s Carmel market, was hit in the assassination of Islamic Jihad operative Mohammed Dahdouh in Gaza a week and a half ago. Aman’s 7-year-old son Muhand was killed; Naima, his…

  • The impact of the financial crisis on the Palestinian community

    by Qusay Hamed, Nablus, Palestine. 13th May 2006 The term “Financial crisis” is an old/new term in the Palestinian dictionary; this occupied territory – that has scanty resources – is economically bounded with Israel. Nowadays Palestine lives a dramatic financial crisis that is considered one of the worst in the nation’s history. Palestinians have been…

  • Large Scale Unity Demonstration in Bil’in on Friday

    Credit: Tess Scheflan FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Friday, the villagers of Bil’in, joined by international and Israeli supporters will hold a demonstration in which they will call for enhanced unity and internal dialogue amongst the Palestinian parties. They will use the occasion of the commemoration of the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967 act…