Tag: Jordan Valley

  • JVS: Fasayel VS Al Awja: a goal for the Palestinian Jordan Valley

    11 July 2011 | Jordan Valley Solidarity Yesterday, July 10th, was launched the third edition of the Jordan Valley football tournament in Al Awja. Yousef Lafi, from the Palestinian Football Federation, along with Al Awja club manager, Fathy Khderat and Ibrahim Sawafta, from the JVS campaign, opened the football tournament. Every speaker emphasized the importance…

  • We will not be uprooted–tree planting in Fasayel

    26 June 2011 | Jordan Valley Solidarity Today local and international activists joined families affected by last week’s demolitions in the Palestinian community of Fasayel in the occupied Jordan Valley as they planted 300 olive trees on their land. At around 5pm a group of 25 Palestinian and international activists joined 10 families whose homes…

  • Two blindfolded and detained by Israeli military in illegal demolition near Al Hadidya, Jordan Valley

    11 June 2011 | Jordan Valley Solidarity At 3pm yesterday 2 army jeeps carrying 8 soldiers came to the home of the Oudeh family. They demanded that the family take down their tent house and their two animal shelters. The army did not present the family with a demolition order or any other documents requiring…

  • Urgent: Funding needed for JVS solidarity schools

    Urgent: Funding needed for JVS solidarity schools

    05 June 2011 | Jordan Valley Solidarity The funding allowing us to run the Jordan Valley Solidarity organization’s solidarity schools has come to an end. We currently have three solidarity tent school projects in Ein Il Hilwe, Ras Al Awja and Meqhoul with over 100 kids and 10 teachers. The schools were forced to take…

  • Ahava’s theft of occupied natural resources finally exposed

    21 May 2011 | Jordan Valley Solidarity After years of strenuous denial, Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, an Israeli cosmetics firm with its main manufacturing plant in an illegal West Bank settlement, is proven by documentary evidence to be in violation of international law through its theft of Palestinian resources. This evidence was recently discovered by…