• Nakba survivors return to their homes in Jerusalem

    On 12th of May 2008 around 200 Palestinians, Israelis and internationals gathered at Jerusalem Theatre situated in West Jerusalem to raise awareness and remember the Nakba by listening to a few of the stories from the victims. The event which started around 4.30pm, took the 150 attendants on a tragic tour of West Jerusalem, traveling from one house to another where Nakba survivors told their stories of how they once lived in their occupied houses. The…

  • CPT: Settlers invade Palestinian village and harass Palestinians and internationals

    South Hebron Hills – At 2.30pm on Saturday, May 10th 2008, about 20 settlers from Ma’on settlement gathered near the village of At-Tuwani and proceeded to enter the village. When an Israeli army jeep arrived, settlers spoke with the soldiers and then followed the soldiers who began walking closer toward the village. The settlers yelled insults and made obscene hand gestures at gathered Palestinian residents. The soldiers allowed the settlers to reach an area just 50…

  • The Guardian: Israel’s celebration remains a Palestinian catastrophe

    By Ahmad Samih Khalidi Published in The Guardian on the 12th May 2008. To view original article click here As Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of its establishment, an inescapable counter-reality lingers over the occasion that is inextricably twinned with it. It is the nakba or catastrophe, the 60th anniversary of the destruction of Arab Palestine in 1948. Despite a public discourse that often claimed the opposite, the Zionist movement set out to build a Jewish…

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