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The villagers of Qawawis woke up Wednesday morning to workers building a meter-high cement wall along the road that runs through their land between the illegal Israeli settlement of Susya and Hebron. The mini-wall designed to keep Palestinian cars from accessing the settler-only road will have the effect of preventing...
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30 May 2006: Two houses were demolished by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the village of Brukin, Salfit, West Bank, on Tuesday morning, 30 May, 2006. They were among 70 houses that have received demolition orders, according to Brukin’s Mayor Ekremah Samara. The village, which has lost 8000 dunums of land to...
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by Gideon Levy. Ha’aretz, Wednesday, May 31 2006
The entire family of Hamdi Aman, a 28-year-old Palestinian from Gaza who spent his youth in...
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by Qusay Hamed, Nablus, Palestine. 13th May 2006
The term “Financial crisis” is an old/new term in the Palestinian dictionary; this occupied territory - that has scanty resources - is economically bounded with Israel.
Nowadays Palestine lives a dramatic financial crisis that is considered one of the worst in the nation’s history.
Saturday May 27th: I have returned to Ramallah. I feel a little worried I’m getting used to certain things I shouldn’t really be used to. When I was coming back in the taxi from al-Quds/Jerusalem, driving through Ar-Ram and Qalandia, the Wall is alongside us on our left, and separates people’s homes from stores and vice...
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The village of Jabaa will hold two non-violent direct actions against the theft of their land by Israeli settlers and soldiers this weekend. A month ago, close to a thousand of the village’s olive trees were uprooted to prepare for the construction of the Wall, which will confiscate 600 Dunams, or roughly one...
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by Benjamin Joffe-Walt. Tuesday May 30 2006. The Guardian
Britain’s largest lecturers’ union yesterday voted in favour of...
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29th May 2006. Tel Rumeida, Hebron
5:30 pm, Shuhada St, near Bet Haddasah settlement
Four settler children were throwing stones at a Palestinian home. The two youngest were less than four years old and the older two were between 7 and 8 years of age. A Danish Human Rights Worker (HRW) approached the Israeli...
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from the Globe and Mail, 27th of May 2006
OTTAWA — [The CUPE,] Ontario’s largest public sector union has voted to support an international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
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