Tag: House Demolition

  • CPT/Operation Dove: Israeli DCO delivers demolition order for electricity pylons

    At-Tuwani – On Tuesday, 28 July, members of the Israeli District Coordinating Office (DCO) – the branch of the Israeli army that administers civilian affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)- issued a demolition order to the six newly constructed electricity pylons in the village of At-Tuwani, located in the South Hebron hills. On 19…

  • Protest over Sheikh Jarrah house continues

    Abe Selig | The Jerusalem Post 27 July 2009 A woman was arrested in east Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on Monday evening, after a scuffle broke out between police and foreign left-wing activists who were protesting the entry of Jews into a nearby home the previous day. The house is the subject of a legal…

  • Sheikh Jarrah demonstrates against settler takeover and demolition

    27 July 2009 At 4pm today Sheikh Jarrah demonstrated against the Israeli settler takeover and partial demolition of the Darwish Hijazi home yesterday. The day began with a meeting held in Sheikh Jarrah’s Um Kamal protest tent, which has become a powerful symbol of Palestinian steadfastness in face of the Israeli ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem,…