Today secondary students in Azzun Atman were forced to remain inside their classrooms and banned from playing football outside by Israeli soldiers–who then tore down the schoolâs Palestinian flag. Adjacent to the villageâs co-educational school in the south is an Israeli military checkpoint; just a few hundred meters thereafter lies the Israeli settlement Shaâare Tiqva. […]
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“This is our land!”: Jubara’s Residents Reject Israeli Permit System
In late August 2003, the Israeli occupation forces informed the Red Crescent that there would be âreal changesâ taking place in Jubara, a small hamlet of 300 residents south of Tulkarem. Such declared changes, then not specified yet predictable, had already begun with the building of the Apartheid Wall and are now escalating as Israelâs […]
Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign Call for November 9th! International Day Against the Wall
In June 2002, the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign put out a call for International Day Against the Wall on November 9th, which was decided upon by communities affected by the Wall as it coincides with the fall of the Berlin Wall. On this day, events and actions will take place worldwide against the Wall in solidarity […]
Grave and Blatant Next Step: Israeli Military Order Calls Wall “Demarcation Line”!
Throughout this week, villagers whose lands have been isolated by the Wall in the northern West Bank found an Israeli military order declaring that the lands isolated behind the Wall formed a âdemarcation borderâ and prohibiting passage to these areas almost entirely. The orders, which constitute a grave and blatant next step in Israelâs illegal […]
Six Thousand of Falamya’s Trees Perish behind the Wall
The people in the village of Falamya are appealing for international organizations to intervene immediately so farmers can access their isolated land behind the Apartheid Wall, where nearly 6,000 citrus and fruit trees are perishing. The Wall has brought massive devastation to the some 600 residents in Falamya, which is northeast of Qalqiliya. The Wall […]
“Access Gates”: Jayyus Municipality Appeal Highlights Wall’s Institutionalization and Relentless Humiliation
On Tuesday October 6th, the Municipality of Jayyus, a village in the Qalqiliya district which is separated from 72% of its land by the Wall, sent out an appeal for support for residentsâ to reach their land. There are two âaccess gatesâ in Jayyus which are claimed by the Israeli military to be for farmers […]
Demonstrations in Norway against the Wall mark Three Years of the Intifada
To mark the third year of the Intifada and amplify the call from Palestine to âSTOP THE WALL!â the Norwegian Peopleâs Aid & Association of Norwegian NGOâs for Palestine organized a series of lectures, film screenings, and demonstrations from the 26th to the 30th of September in major cities across Norway. ***image5***The series of events […]
According to Plan: Israel’s High Profile Announcement on Wall Path brings no Surprises
In what those who have been closely following Israelâs plans around the construction of the Wall see as pre-determined, Wednesdayâs high profile announcement to build the Wall east of Ariel and Kedumim is outdated, as the current mapping of the Wall is virtually the same as plans that have been made public since the beginning […]
Conquest of the West Bank: UN Report Calls Wall Annexation
On September 8, 2003 the United Nations published an official document, Question of the Violation of Human Rights in the Occupied Arab Territories, including Palestine, which includes a special chapter analyzing the impact of the Wall on Palestinians as well as the illegality of the Wall itself. This report, written by the Special Rapporteur of […]
UN Civil Society Conference in support of Palestinian people agrees to press governments to demand destruction of Wall in Occupied Territories
ACTION PLAN ADOPTED TODAY ALSO CALLS FOR EDUCATING PUBLIC, TABLING OF NEW RESOLUTIONS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SECURITY COUNCIL Civil society organizations committed themselves to pressure their governments to condemn the construction of the “wall” by Israel as part of its pattern of illegal settlement activity, according to the Plan of Action adopted this afternoon at […]