Tag: Jordan Valley
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Jordan Valley: threat of imminent demolition hangs over the village of Al Hadidiya
by Ben Lorber 7 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Before the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Al Hadidiya, near the Jordan Valley villages of Tubas and Jiftlik, was inhabited by over 100 families. Today, only 14 families remain. Since 1967, the village has been demolished four times, and over 3000 dunums…
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A wave of demolitions as Israel targets the Jordan Valley
by Lydia 30 November 2011 | International Solidarity Day, West Bank This morning at 7am the Israeli army entered the village of El Beida in the northern Jordan Valley with 10 military jeeps and one bulldozer. Israeli military proceeded towards Abu Tarek Fracka’s land where he houses a honey farm on the land where his…
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Israel targets Vittorio Arrigoni School in embattled Jordan Valley
11 September 2011 | The Alternative Information Center, Ben Lorber As schools around the world begin another year of instruction, one school, near to completion in one of the most grief-stricken and resilient areas of occupied Palestine, has suffered a massive set-back because the Israeli military has carried away its infrastructure- the Vittorio Arrigone school,…
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Occupation in the Jordan Valley
22 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In the last month ISM has joined up with Jordan Valley Solidarity and a slew of other international activists to make mud bricks for a new house and football field in the small Bedouin village of Fasayil, in the Jordan Valley. Fasayil is made up of…
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Israeli armed forces gun down 21 year old
14 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement A 21 year-old student was killed by the Israeli army on July 13th in Al Faraa refugee camp, whilst on his way to prayer. Around 3:30 am the Israeli military entered the refugee camp with several heavily armed vehicles. Ibrahim Omar Serhan, a student at Al Najah University,…
