***image4***Palestinian civil society organizations in Jerusalem have launched a campaign in defense of Palestinian residency rights in the city, aiming to end the Occupation’s revocation of residency rights of Jerusalemites.



With the occupation of Jerusalem in 1967, Israeli authorities have implemented policies to isolate the city from the rest of the West Bank, attempting to ensure a Jewish demographic majority in the city at a ratio of 70 percent Jewish to 30 percent Palestinian.

On the morning of March 3rd, Occupation forces destroyed a well in the village of Burqa’, east of Hebron. The well belonged to Hamed Jaber and was located 200 meters from the road that cuts through Palestinian land, connecting the settlements of Kirya Araba and Kharsina.



Eyewitnesses testified that Occupation bulldozers arrived close to 11:00 in the morning, destroyed the Well and then departed in less than in an hour. Residents who live in the area, which suffers from an acute shortage of water, relied on this well for drinking and watering crops.

On February 24th, Palestinian and Polish activists tied a giant traditional Palestinian scarf (Kuffeyah) around the iconic Palm sculpture in Jerusalem Avenue, central Warsaw.



The palm, which dominates Warsaw’s city-scape and appears on post-cards was created by Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska. Rajkowska is known for her advocacy for Palestinian human rights and work in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

Stop the Wall repression update: Feb. 10 – Feb 23

Part I: Testimony

Al Ma’sara: Occupation forces repress the weekly demonstration, held in commemoration of the Hebron massacre and the Libya revolution.



The weekly demonstration in al Ma’sara was held in commemoration of the 17th anniversary of the massacre at the Ibarihmi Mosque in Hebron and in support of the Libyan revolution.

More than a dozen protests, vigils and other actions were staged on the 10th and after in honor of Jawaher Abu Rahmah and in conjunction with the commemoration in Bil’in.

On Sunday, nearly one hundred Palestinians gathered Manger Square to stand in solidarity with the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions, and the current movements in Yemen and Algeria. Participants carried Palestinian, Egyptian and Tunisian flags and shouted slogans for the victory of the two revolutions, haling the great accomplishments that have been achieved by both Egyptians and Tunisians.

Ni’in: Dozens suffer from gas inhalation as protestors hail the Egyptian revolution

Nearly 400 demonstrators prayed on the land near the Apartheid Wall in Ni’lin this Friday. The weekly sermon called for an end to Palestinian internal divisions and saluted the Egyptian revolution, emphasizing that the Palestinian people stand with their Egyptian brothers.

Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Global BDS Day of Action



30 March 2011








The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to unite in your different capacities and struggles to join the Global BDS Day of Action on Land Day, 30 March 2011, in solidarity with the Palestinian people's right to self determination on their ancestral land.

Today, A group of volunteers succeeded in planting olive trees on agricultural land that had been confiscated by the settlement near the village several months ago.



Following a call from Stop the Wall and Agricultural Relief, volunteers from the village, joined by several international solidarity activists, headed to the confiscated land, which totals some 60 dunums, in the afternoon. They began to plant olive trees, re-plowing the land that had been plowed and planted with grain by settlers.