Ma’an – August 5, 2015 NABLUS – Dozens of Palestinian residents of the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum staged a sit-in on Wednesday to protest the Israeli national water company cutting off its supply to the village, locals said. Hamzeh Jumaa, the head of the village council, told Ma’an that the Israeli water company […]
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Facebook page Video showing the actual story not apparent in the viral picture of RHR Field Coordinator Zakaria Sadah and Qusra Mayor… returning policewoman to prevent second officer from shooting Palestinians… “The bottom line is that, while settlers are calling this an intentional publicity stunt, and some Palestinians are angry with […]
MEMO | August 3, 2015 Israeli authorities yesterday opened a new coffee shop and pub build on part of the land belonging to the historical Islamic cemetery of Ma’manillah in the old city of Jerusalem, Quds Press reported. In a statement, Al-Aqsa Organisation for Waqf and Heritage said that an Israeli coffee network is running […]
CPTnet | July 31, 2015 “Recognizing that, in all countries in the world, there are children living in exceptionally difficult conditions, and that such children need special consideration…” – from the Preamble of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child In the past two weeks, CPT has witnessed a significant increase in the […]
Ma’an – July 31, 2015 NABLUS – Israeli settlers killed a Palestinian toddler and injured four others early Friday morning after setting their home ablaze near Nablus in the occupied West Bank in what the Israeli leadership called an act of terrorism. Israeli settlers smashed the windows of two homes in the Palestinian village of […]
CPTnet | July 18, 2015 This summer marks the twentieth year of Christian Peacemaker Team’s presence in Palestine. While that does not seem to be a reason to celebrate, we do feel we should mark the occasion. 1995: Armed Settlers Pictured here: An unchanged reality since 1995 that clearly shows the imbalance of force between Israeli […]
IMEMC News & Agencies | July 14, 2015 Q-Press media center for Jerusalem and al-Aqsa affairs today said that the planning and construction committee in occupied Jerusalem, last week, has approved the construction of a huge project on land of the Ma’man Allah historic Islamic cemetery, on which an Israeli school has already been built. […]
Ma’an – July 8, 2015 JERUSALEM – A researcher said Tuesday that an Israeli committee for zoning and planning has allocated private Palestinian land to expand the illegal French Hill settlement in East Jerusalem. Ahmad Sub Laban, a settlement affairs researcher, told Ma’an that 25 dunams (6 acres) of land from Shufat and al-Issawiya has […]
International Solidarity Movement | July 3, 2015 Ramallah – On July 2, 2015, in honor of the first anniversary of the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, Palestinian activists with international supporters blocked a settlers-only road leading to the illegal Adam settlement. Demonstrators cited this road as the road that the murderers took in their search […]
Yesh Din | June 23, 2015 We can see just how seriously the Israeli government takes nationalist crimes from the following case. On July 26, 2010, a large group of Israeli marauders, whom eyewitnesses said came from the direction of the settlements of Yitzhar and Bracha, allegedly made their way to land belonging to the […]
