Tag: Jerusalem

  • New Settlement Puts Pressure on Jerusalem Palestinians

    by Jon Elmer The New Standard Situated on a hill overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, the new Israeli housing development looks like it could be an upscale planned community in suburban North America: a billboard solicits buyers for “phase one” housing units; another shows the blueprint of the future community, complete with a daycare,…

  • Israeli troops say they were given shoot-to-kill order

    by Conal Urquhart The Guardian Israeli military prosecutors have opened criminal investigations following allegations by soldiers that they carried out illegal shoot-to-kill orders against unarmed Palestinians. The 17 separate investigations were prompted by the testimony of dozens of troops collected by Breaking the Silence, a pressure group of former Israeli soldiers committed to exposing human…

  • ICAHD and other Israeli Peace Groups call for the cancellation of a planned Muslim Quarter new settlement

    Another illegal act in East Jerusalem undertaken by the Israeli Government and the Municipality of Jerusalem has recently been uncovered: a plan to build a new Jewish settlement in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City near Herod’s Gate. Recently the Sub-committee of the Local Committee for Planning and Construction in Jerusalem has confirmed a…

  • SOS – Stop the Wall!

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank — Black smoke will be seen rising at 10 a.m. on Thursday July 28 along the path of the Apartheid Wall in the central West Bank region from Marda to Qalandia as an SOS to the world to take action to stop Israel’s annexation of land, and imprisonment…

  • Is the World Blind: Two more families lose their homes in East Jerusalem today

    Merijn De Jong, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu==5&submenu==1&item=$6 Two more families in East-Jerusalem lost their homes today and another two families had their belongings thrown out into the street as a new wave of house demolitions swept through Dahiat Al-Salaam and Silwan. In Dahiat Al-Salaam in East-Jerusalem, the Hannafiya family’s home was demolished…