• ICAHD: “Where shall I go now?”

    A wave of house demolitions in East Jerusalem Lucia and Angela of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (www.icahd.org) Again yesterday, houses were demolished in East Jerusalem. In the early morning the bulldozers moved into the neighborhood of Isawiyya, where they demolished a gas station. Then, they moved towards the neighborhood of Tel al Ful…

  • The day after

    ISM Nablus July 4th It’s several days since the Israeli army’s large daylight invasion of Nablus and the surrounding refugee camps. While there is much speculation, there has been no official word on the reason for the operation. What can be said with certainty is that it was clearly not within the terms or the…

  • Letters from Rafah

    Written by K and M Special greetings again from Rafah. There is just no way to describe life here at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. We are the only International people in all of Rafah and the news has traveled fast and everyone knows we are here. This afternoon all of us, along…

  • Allegations against Bili’in protest crumble in court

    By Meron Rapaport July 4th http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595283.html Are the demonstrations in Bili’in against the separation fence really non-violent, as claimed by their Palestinian and Israeli organizers, or are they in fact violent protests involving the throwing of stones, as charged by the Israel Defense Forces? As expected, ever since the demonstrations there began, both sides have…

  • Qawawis

    written by V. The psychological and physical harassment in the village of Qawawis continues. The sheperds living in the hamlet of Qawawis, South of Hebron live in constant fear of the settlers living in the nearby illegal settlement outpost. All settlements are illegal under International law but the settlement outpost near Qawawis is illegal even…