The European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with Palestine urged the EU to act urgently and decisively to prevent the demolition of Khan Al-Ahmar, a Bedouin refugee community in Palestine’s West Bank. “The Delegation has visited Khan Al-Ahmar recently whilst on mission to Palestine and met the community there. 140 people, …
Read More »Israel-Palestine NGO Working Group Releases Statement on Forced Relocation of Bedouin
Statement Version Forced Relocation and Transfer of Indigenous Bedouin Populations- June 17th 2015: This statement is based on a letter the Israel-Palestine NGO Working Group at the United Nations sent to the Permanent Representative of every Member State mission to the United Nations in New York on Wednesday 17th June …
Read More »Palestinian Bedouin community battles eviction by Israel
Middle East Monitor, Monday, 24 November 2014 10:35 After living under decades of Israeli occupation, Palestinian Bedouins now face an Israeli plan for their forced displacement to urban areas, which, they say, do not suit their nomadic lifestyle. Abu Raed, a 66-year-old leader of a Palestinian Bedouin community near Jerusalem, …
Read More »Activists block Jericho road to protest East Jerusalem land grab
Mondoweiss, Annie Robbins on November 30, 2014 19 A peaceful protest by activists from Palestinian popular committees successfully blocked the Jerusalem – Jericho road Friday in their ongoing protest against Israeli policies to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Bedouin communities from “Area C”. As Stop the Wall reported here last month, …
Read More »Dispossession and displacement with no end in sight
Saturday, 18 October 2014 16:30 An estimated 90,000-100,000 Palestinian Bedouin lived in Palestine before the Nakba. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s all but about 10,000 were driven from their lands by Zionist militias and – after the establishment of the State of Israel – the Israeli army. The …
Read More »Israel Planning Mass Expulsion of Bedouins from West Bank
Saturday, October 18, 2014 – 11:21 Inter Press Service RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 18 (IPS) – Thirty-year-old Naifa Youssef and 50 other members of her Bedouin community live a precarious life, eking out a hand-to-mouth existence alongside the main road which links Jerusalem with the Dead Sea and the ancient …
Read More »BUS Stop: Ramallah Artist and his Short Film Featuring Children of Wadi Abu Hindi [Video]
The above film–which features a special project undertaken by the children of Wadi Abu Hindi–comes from the artist’s solo show “NO EXIT,” which debuted at the Whitebox Art Center on July 24th and draws its inspiration from the ordeal which prevented him from traveling to New York. ————————————————————– The following …
Read More »Israeli forces manhandle EU diplomats, seize West Bank aid
Israeli forces manhandle EU diplomats, seize West Bank aid Source: Reuters – Fri, 20 Sep 2013 01:40 PM Author: Reuters * EU diplomats try to help Palestinians in demolished hamlet * Soldiers throw sound grenades, grapple with diplomats * Drive away truck with emergency aid and tents By Noah Browning …
Read More »Letter to Secretary of State John Kerry
June 26, 2013 San Jose, CA 95124 Secretary John F. Kerry U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Secretary Kerry: You have offered $4 billion to the Palestinians in investment to boost their economy. I was in Israel early this month, and Palestinians say that …
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