By Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent To view original article, published by The National, click here JERUSALEM: It must be the smallest Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories: just half a house. But Palestinian officials and Israeli human rights groups ...
Read More »Apartment building blown up – Five families made homeless
At approximately 4AM on Monday July 28th, Israeli soldiers and police raided a Palestinian owned apartment block in the district of Beit Hanine in East Jerusalem. After violently evicting the families and international human rights workers present inside, the building ...
Read More »Haaretz: U.S. protests eviction of Arab family from East Jerusalem home
By Akiva Eldar To view original article, published by Haaretz on the 25th July, click here The United States this week filed an official protest with Israel for harming Palestinians, including the eviction of the al-Kurd family from their home ...
Read More »Haaretz: Court upholds ruling to evict Palestinian family from East Jerusalem home
By Akiva Eldar To view original article, published in Haaretz, click here The High Court of Justice last week upheld a ruling for the eviction of a Palestinian family from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, whose house is ...
Read More »Pending Eviction in East Jerusalem – Settler organisation attempts to occupy Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jerrah
Since Wednesday evening, a group of Palestinian, Israeli and international solidarity activists are camping out to protest against a Palestinian family being threatened with eviction from their home in East Jerusalem Map from The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ) ...
Read More »Protest against the apartheid wall in Beit Hanina
On Friday 11th of July, the people of Beit Hanina marched to the settler road where Israel is about to build the wall. About 100 Palestinians and international solidarity activists participated in the demonstration. Israeli soldiers and border police came ...
Read More »J-Post: Court to hear petition on Silwan digs
By Elana Kirsh To view original article, published by the Jerusalem Post on the 18th June, click here The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem will hear a petition on Wednesday on the issue of archaeological excavations being carried out ...
Read More »J-Post: Ofra rabbi permits Shabbat construction
To view original article, published in the Jerusalem Post on the 12th June, click here In a dramatic halachic ruling, the rabbi of Ofra, a settlement in the West Bank northeast of Ramallah, has ruled that Palestinian construction workers can ...
Read More »Alt-arch: Hearing in the Supreme Court
Update ‘From Shiloah to Silwan group’. To view website click here On Wednesday, the 18th of June at 11 a.m., there will be a hearing in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem regarding the archaeological excavations under the houses of the ...
Read More »Haaretz: Israel to build over 800 new homes in East Jerusalem areas
By Nadav Shragai, published in Haaretz. To view original article click here Israel announced plans on Sunday to build more than 800 hundred new homes in eastern parts of the Jerusalem municipality, despite U.S. and Palestinian calls to halt settlement ...
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