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18th December 2017 At the start of this month, the Office of the Prosecutor (“Prosecutor’s Office”) of the International Criminal Court (“the Court”) issued its annual report on Preliminary Examination Activities. The Court undertakes preliminary examinations in order to determine whether a situation complies with the legal criteria established in the …
Read More »Stand up for Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Statement of Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)* for Human Rights Day 2017 Despite the adoption of Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948, violations against human rights remain unabated and for indigenous peoples, we continue to face the systemic, structural and cultural barriers. Our rights were finally recognized …
Read More »Visiting EU, Netanyahu Will Be ‘Billed’ 1M Euros for Razed West Bank Projects
Netta Ahituv Dec 07, 2017 9:26 AM Next Monday, December 11, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will pay what is being called an “unofficial visit” to the European Parliament. The visit to Brussels will include a breakfast, which is also classified as unofficial. On top of this, Netanyahu can also expect …
Read More »Israel Raids 3 Palestinian Villages Where Hundreds Are Slated to Be Expelled From Their Homes
Amira Hass | Nov 30, 2017 12:47 AM In the wee hours of Wednesday morning Israeli soldiers raided three West Bank communities that the government has earmarked for forced relocation: Palestinian shepherding communities Ein al-Hilweh and Umm Jamal in the north of the Jordan Valley, and the Bedouin community Khan al-Ahmar. According to reports …
Read More »The Occupation of Water
29 November 2017, 12:51 UTC The legacy of Israel’s 50-year occupation of the Palestinian territories has been systematic human rights violations on a mass scale. One of its most devastating consequences is the impact of Israel’s discriminatory policies on Palestinians’ access to adequate supplies of clean and safe water. Soon …
Read More »Hamdallah: Israeli plans to forcibly transfer Bedouins in E1 ‘cross a red line’
NOV. 28, 2017 2:54 P.M. (UPDATED: NOV. 29, 2017 3:25 P.M.) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah released a statement on Monday expressing the government’s solidarity with the hundreds of Palestinian Bedouins in the community of Jabal al-Baba at risk of forcible displacement by the Israeli government. Earlier …
Read More »Video: Bedouin community resists imminent house demolitions and Israel’s E1 project
Mondoweiss Editors on November 27, 2017 The residents of Jabal Al-Baba Bedouin community, east of Occupied Jerusalem held a rally a week after receiving an eviction notice from the Israeli authorities. The protest, in cooperation with the Avazz organisation and international activists aimed to send the message they are refusing Israeli orders …
Read More »Hundreds of Palestinians on the brink of expulsion: ‘We just want to live’
By Activestills |Published November 20, 2017 Three hundred Palestinians have been ordered to leave their homes and take with them all their belongings within the next eight days. Where are they supposed to go? The military order provides no answers. In the meantime, they wait for the rain that refuses to come. …
Read More »Israeli Army Orders 300 Bedouin to Evacuate Village Near West Bank Settlement
IDF order affects some 60 families in Jabal al-Baba and follows similar move earlier this week to evacuate Bedouin sites in northern Jordan Valley Yotam Berger | Nov 18, 2017 3:06 AM The Israeli army on Thursday ordered some 300 Bedouin to evacuate their homes in a village near the West Bank …
Read More »Entire Bedouin village faced with forced displacement
by Jaclynn Ashly 18 Nov 2017 An entire village consisting of dozens of Palestinian Bedouin families is threatened with imminent forced displacement, after Israel issued a rare evacuation order for the whole community. Jabal al-Baba, which lies to the east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, is home to more than 300 …
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