by Peter, January 25th Recently, I was able to accompany three Palestinians on a drive through the Jordan Valley. The more scenic aspects aside, a trip through the area revealed the slow, destructive siege of the Valley. Movement restrictions have ...
Read More »Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians Continues in Jordan Valley
by the ISM media team, January 25th On Tuesday 23rd January IOF bulldozers carried out the latest round of home demolitions in the Jordan Valley as part of the ongoing attempt to ethnically cleanse the valley of its indigenous inhabitants. ...
Read More »Haaretz: “Checkpoint comradeship”
by Amira Hass, January 24th Anyone who wants to become acquainted with Israeli society should go to the checkpoints. Not for a quarter of an hour, under the guidance of commanders who will glory in the pavilion they built for ...
Read More »PNN: “Palestinian nonviolent protest at checkpoint as Israeli soldiers beat student”
by Ali Samoudi, December 20th On Wednesday Israeli forces occupying Al Hamra Checkpoint in Jenin confiscated the identity cards of hundreds of Palestinians, detaining them for five hours. While the soldiers were confiscating identification and detaining citizens, a young man ...
Read More »“Welcome to Israel” – a trip down the Jordan Valley
by John, December 14th Today we had a trip down the Jordan valley which didn’t start too auspiciously for our Palestinian contact – he had just been delayed for two hours at a checkpoint. A soldier on the way through ...
Read More »Palestine News Network: “Settlements further encroaching into Tubas; major loss imminent”
by Ali Samoudi, December 10th The northern West Bank’s Tubas is under imminent threat by Israeli settlers who have long had their eye on the Palestinian town’s agricultural lands. The settlements are already encroaching onto the land with continual expansion. ...
Read More »Israel Plans House Demolitions in Al Jiftlik, Jordan Valley
from brightonpalestine.org, October 16th I visited Al Jiftlik, a Palestinian town in the Jordan Valley last week in the hope of making connections between grassroots groups in the valley and in Brighton. Al Jiftlik is in the Israeli controlled area ...
Read More »Soldiers Disrupt Medical Work in Tubas
by Tom Hayes We had gone to meet Red Crescent workers in the hope of establishing links between the branch and grassroots groups in Brighton. The paramedics at the branch told us of how Israeli checkpoints and closures made it ...
Read More »Israeli Company Refuses to Prosecute British Protesters Over Fear of Examination of the Lawfulness of its Business in Court
Early Wednesday morning, Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli company Carmel Agrexco’s UK headquarters. This was part of a non-violent protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in the occupied territories of Palestine. Protesters locked themselves inside ...
Read More »Israeli Company Blockaded in Britan For the Second Time in Bid to Gain Ruling on Illegality of Settlement Products
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Early Wednesday morning Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli company Carmel Agrexco’s British headquarters. This was part of a non-violent protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in the Israeli occupied territories of Palestine. ...
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