This article originally appeared in SF Gate – May 8, 2014 [Photo by Majdi Mohammed, AP] By Karin Laub West Bank (AP) — Over the course of just three weeks, Israeli forces destroyed Suleiman Qaed’s small cinderblock house and the trailer home an aid group sent him as a replacement. …
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This article originally appeared in Al Jazeera – May 3, 2014 [Photo by AFP/Getty Images] By Nora Lester Murad At first, the visit by the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) to Jabal al-Baba on April 9 seemed routine. A Bedouin community in the E1 area, Jabal al-Baba has had 18 demolition orders pending since February. …
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Photo by Katja Magnusson – Swedish Radio The following is a Swedish Radio piece, on the recent demolition of EU-funded temporary structures on E-1 and subsequent discussions as to whether to call for compensation from Israel. Originally aired on Sveriges Radio – April 16, 2014 By Katja Magnusson Enligt FN:s organ för palestinska …
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Originally published by EurActiv – April 11, 2014 Israel has seized three EU-funded humanitarian aid projects on the edge of a settlement construction zone that Europe views as as a ‘red line’, spurring demands for compensation payments to Brussels at a crisis moment for John Kerry’s Mideast peace bid. The three …
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Originally published in Ha’aretz – April 14, 2014 By Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Israel is continuing to destroy systematically the villages of shepherds who live in the Jordan Rift. Last week, the Civil Administration demolished Homsa, another tiny Palestinian village. In January, 160 residents of the valley were made homeless; last …
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Photo by Rami Allaria Originally published by Ynet News (with reporting from AFP) – Saturday, April 12, 2014 Israel has demolished several European Union-funded humanitarian housing shelters in a highly sensitive strip of West Bank land near Jerusalem, which led European diplomats to demand financial compensation. “On April 9, three of …
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Originally published by Ma’an News Agency – Wednesday, March 12, 2014 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli bulldozers early Wednesday demolished a residential building, a car wash, and a shop in an East Jerusalem village, a popular committee spokesman said. Hani Halabiyya, a spokesman for East Jerusalem’s popular resistance committees, told Ma’an that a …
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Originally published by Ha’aretz, Friday, February 28, 2014 By Amira Hass The Civil Administration on Thursday confiscated playground equipment that the Italian government had donated to a school at the Khan al-Amar Bedouin encampment east of Jerusalem. A representative of the Italian Consulate accompanied the delivery, which came in two trucks, …
Read More »Report: Polish water tanks in the West Bank may be destroyed 14.05. Jerozolima (PAP) – Organizacje pozarządowe działające na palestyńskich terytoriach opublikowały raport o niszczeniu przez Izrael obiektów powstałych na Zachodnim Brzegu za pieniądze krajów UE. Na liście obiektów zagrożonych są cysterny na wodę wyremontowane z polskich funduszy. Zdaniem władz Izraela wyburzane …
Read More »Israel set to demolish EU-funded renewables projects February 2012 “Six EU-funded wind and solar energy projects which provide electricity for 600 West Bank Palestinians have been put on a ‘demolition list’ by Israel, allegedly in response to an EU heads of mission report which called for laws to prevent the …
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