 Salim Shawamreh and the Issue of Innocence
November 22, 2009
Meir Margalit
The Supreme Court ruling that left intact the order to demolish Salim Shawamreh’s house in Anata is based on several legal grounds, of which the most central is the argument of “lack of good faith . . . |  NO PARTNER FOR PEACE: OUR AMERICAN PROBLEM
November 4, 2009
Jeff Halper
It was as if some official, perhaps one of President Obama’s “czars,” like the Czar for Demolishing American Credibility, had orchestrated a systematic campaign to isolate the US from the rest of . . . |
 Another eviction in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem
November 3, 2009
ICAHD
Rioting settlers forced a Palestinian family from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah out of their home on Tuesday, after the district court denied the residents' appeal to remain on . . . |  Three house demolitions in East Jerusalem
November 11, 2009
ICAHD
This morning the Jerusalem municipality demolished three more houses in the Palestinian neighborhoods of Abu Tor and Beit Hanina and 40 people were displaced.
One of the houses in Abu-To . . . |
A Demolition in Wadi Ara
November 1, 2009
YNET
Ynet News
Sharon Roffe – Ofir
Published: 11.01.09, 13:12 / Israel News
Clashes broke out Sunday morning in the village of Musmus in the Wadi Ara region between resident . . . |  Municipality of Jerusalem destroys tent of Al-Ghawe family
October 28, 2009
ICAHD
Today, Wednesday, 28th of October the Israeli forces proceeded with new aggressions against the Al-Ghawe family in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarra. After last week's series of attack . . . |
 Another series of mass demolitions: 5 demolitions in one day, 26 people displaced
October 27, 2009
ICAHD
Today the Municipality of Jerusalem ordered the demolition of five Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem, thereby displacing 26 people, including 10 children. Three demolitions were carried out by . . . | An Israeli activist imprisoned for an attempt to prevent a house demolition
September 23, 2009
ICAHD
Kobi Snitz, a long-time activist with the Israeli group Anarchists Against the Wall, and a friend of ICAHD, begins a 20 day prison term for an arrest in 2004 in which he tried to prevent a home de . . . |
 Norway divests from Israel defense firm over ties to West Bank fence
September 3, 2009
Amira Hass
The Norwegian government has decided to pull all of its investments from Israeli arms firm Elbit as a result of it involvement in the construction of the West Bank separation fence, the Norwegian . . . |  Israeli academics must pay price to end occupation
August 29, 2009
Anat Matar
Several days ago Dr. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev published an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. In that article he explained why, after years of activity in the peace c . . . |
Expansion of Maaleh Hazeitim settlement publicized
August 23, 2009
Nir Hasson
A plan for the building of a new settlement, Ma'aleh David, in the middle of an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem was filed for approval by the relevant municipal committee at the Jerusalem Muni . . . |  ICAHD Building Camp 2009: Day 9
August 16, 2009
ICAHD Volunteer
After the excitement of the South Hebron Hills, it was nice to return to Beit Arabiya and both of our worksites in Anata. We began the day with a lecture on the economy of the occupation from Shi . . . |
 ICAHD Building Camp 2009: Day 8
August 16, 2009
ICAHD Volunteer
On our last morning in South Hebron Mountain, breakfast was interrupted by Israeli settlers advancing on shepherds outside of the Palestinian village of Susia. This happens here every couple of d . . . |  ICAHD Building Camp 2009: Day 6 & 7
August 13, 2009
ICAHD Volunteer
The Occupation Stinks
It’s Friday, August 7¬, and I am in an underground cave in the Bedouin community of Susia, in the South Hebron hills. Bego and Inez have begun to scrape away at the . . . |
 ICAHD Building Camp 2009: Day 5
August 13, 2009
ICAHD Volunteer
Up at 6am after quite a restless night (alarms going off, people talking in their sleep, snoring, fans rotating loudly – all things to be expected in a room of 40 people...), coffee at cafe Salim . . . |  ICAHD Building Camp 2009: Day 4
August 12, 2009
E.D.
Anata, East Jerusalem, Yesterday I spoke with a Jerusalem Post reporter, and invited her to come and see the camp in Anata for herself. She couldn’t, she told me, “because we’re not allowed to go . . . |
 House demolished in Jerusalem's Old City
April 6, 2009
ICAHD (JJ)
The Municipality of Jerusalem this morning demolished the house of Imran and Sirat Fakhuri inside Jerusalem's Old City, committing yet another war crime. The house was located in Burja Laq Laq, ne . . . |  ICAHD Building Camp 2009: Day 3
August 12, 2009
E.C.R. & M.H.
Today’s writers are working on the Jerusalem construction site, beside the Israeli “separation barrier”. Tuesday was a great day; we worked hard but still had fun by all singing together. Our grou . . . |
Building Bridges
August 6, 2009
ICAHD
Volunteers rebuild houses demolished in Jerusalem
Every year dozens of volunteers come to Anata, in east Jerusalem, to reconstruct houses destroyed by Israel. Jerusalem municip . . . |  ICAHD Building Camp 2009: Day 2
August 5, 2009
ICAHD Volunteer
On the second day of the building camp, work continued as usual, sandwiched by a nonviolence training by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and a presentation on the history of Beit Arab . . . |
 ICAHD Building Camp 2009: Day 1
August 5, 2009
E.D.
Anata, East Jerusalem, August 2—The day I arrived here a right-wing extremist walked into Open House, a lesbian and gay center in Tel Aviv, and pulled out a gun, killing three and injuring 15.
|  Israeli forces have evicted the Hanoun and al-Ghawe families from their Sheikh Jarrah homes.
February 8, 2009
ICAHD
2 August 2009: Israeli forces have evicted the Hanoun and al-Ghawe
families from their Sheikh Jarrah homes.
At around 5:30 in the morning, Israeli police arrived at the Hannoun
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 Settlers take over a Palestinian house in Sheikh Jarrah
July 27, 2009
ICAHD
On July 26th a group of settlers led by Arie king took over a Palestinian house in Sheikh Jarrah to which they were given custody of in a very controversial decision of the Israeli court. While tr . . . |  Summer Camp Announced for 2009
June 22, 2009
ICAHD Staff
In 2002, Younes Mohamed Abdalla Sbaih and his family built a new house on the Jerusalem-side of Anata, a Palestinian town split by the Israeli separation barrier. It was common knowledge in . . . |
 Halper Receives Kant World Citizen Prize
May 21, 2009
ICAHD Staff
Jeff Halper, Director of ICAHD, received the Kant World Citizen Prize 2009, together with Brazilian Bishop Dom Luiz Cappio. It was awarded to the two prominent human rights activists by the Kant F . . . |  Save Beit Arabiya!
June 17, 2009
ICAHD Staff
Urgent action required: The Israeli Supreme Court has just ruled that the home of Salim and Arabiya Shawamreh in Anata, which has already been demolished by the Israeli authorities four times, can . . . |
 Israeli architects must stop designing illegal settlements
May 19, 2009
ARC•PEACE
ARC●PEACE has noted with dismay that Israeli architects engage in the design of illegal Jewish settlements on expropriated Palestinian land in the Occupied Territories. These activities are . . . |  Zero Palestinian Evictions, Now! campaign launches
May 1, 2009
International Alliance of Habitants
We, inhabitants’ associations, international networks, voluntary groups, NGOs, public agencies, citizens of the world, express our indignation at and denounce Israel’s continual policies of evicti . . . |
 U.N. Seeks End to Razing of Homes in East Jerusalem
May 1, 2009
Isabel Kershner
The United Nations is calling on Israel to freeze all pending demolition orders against Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem in a new report that reflects growing international concern over develop . . . | Feminist groups threaten to swarm police station over arrest of leftists
April 29, 2009
Ofri Ilani
A coalition of feminist organizations warned the public security minister on Tuesday that it would flood the interrogation rooms in the Yarkon District station to protest the arrest of several mem . . . |
 Israel continues the policy of collective punishment
April 7, 2009
ICAHD (GK)
Yet another house demolition was carried out today in East Jerusalem. This time taking place in the village of Sur Bahir. It belonged to the family of Hussam Dwayat, a thirty year old Palestinian, . . . |  The Municipality of Jerusalem to "blow up" houses
April 6, 2009
ICAHD
The Municipality of Jerusalem has announced plans to escalate the demolition policy and to employ the blowing up of houses to allow larger buildings to be demolished more quickly. The picture is t . . . |
