• Threat to divest is Church tool in Israeli fight

    by Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times August 6th, 2005 www.catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=454 The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. announced Friday that it would press four American corporations to stop providing military equipment and technology to Israel for use in the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and that if the companies did not comply, the church would take a…

  • 10 Palestinians injured by Israeli soldiers in Liban Al-Gharbi

    This morning, ten Palestinians were injured when soldiers opened fire in Liban Al-Gharbi, near Rantis – 15 km south of Qalqilya. The conflict began six days ago, when a group of 25 settlers and soldiers brought heavy machinery onto a piece of land that belongs to the village. They began digging and excavating the land,…

  • Bil’in villagers build a wall of their own to protest land annexation

    By ISMedia Villagers from Bil’in on Friday, along with Israeli and international peace activists and Internationals dressed in black, will participate in a demonstration against the Israel’s Annexation Wall, currently under constructed in Bil’in. Completion of the Wall could mean death of the Palestinian identity, security and any chance for sovereignty. That message is the…

  • Who is terrorizing whom?

    Photo courtesy of Operation Dove (At-Tuwani, Southern Hebron Hills, Palestinian Occupied Territories) IDF soldiers, without respecting Israeli or international laws, assault a Palestinian shepherd. The soldiers claimed he was allowing his sheep to graze on land under military closure. August 1 by Operation Dove volunteers A group of shepherds from the village of At-Tuwani, in…

  • Through the tunnel of oppression and into the sweet spring air of a free country

    by Devon I must share with you this image that has been running through my mind for the last six days. It happened Monday, August 1, in the West Bank village of Kfir Haris. There was a completely nonviolent demonstration remove a road block so traffic could flow freely into the village. It was also…