Newsletter · July 2024

ICAHD Webinar Tomorrow; Jeff's July Update; Issa Amro interview video; Record Israeli Land Grab in West Bank

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July 16, 2024

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Life for Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank is worsening and becoming more challenging than ever before. Extreme Israeli Jewish settlers invade Palestinian rural communities and terrorize the residents; the Israeli army and police force close roads making access to communities, schools and hospitals difficult, if not impossible. How do communities survive when confronted by one challenge after another? Who can protect them? What can the international community do to provide solidary? Join this ICAHD webinar to hear directly from people on the ground who are on the cutting edge in working for justice.

Awdeh Al-Hathaleen, journalist and English teacher from Umm al-Khair in the South Hebron Hills. Awdeh will provide news of the home demolitions on June 26th which displaced 40 residents. Other structures were also destroyed that day.

Guy Hirschfield, field coordinator for Torat Tzedek – Torah of Justice, and a separate project, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, that attempts to bring the reality of the Occupation to non-activist Israelis. Guy will bring information about attempts to protect the shepherding communities in E-1 and near Jericho from terrorism by extreme settlers.

An Interview with Issa Amro recorded July 10

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE Issa Amro is Hebron-based activist advocating the use of non-violent resistance and civil disobedience in the struggle against Israel's occupation of Palestine. He is the former coordinator of Youth Against Settlements and the present leader of Friends of Hebron. NEWS, ANALYSIS & OPINION

Photo: Wisam Hashlamounn/Flash90

“On June 28, far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich was quotedsaying: “I will bring 1 million settlers. One settlement for every country that recognized Palestine as a state in the last month. This is their punishment.” Smotrich, who is himself a settler, has previously said his “life’s mission is to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state”.

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JEFF'S JULY VIDEO UPDATE

For July’s monthly update, ICAHD’s Jeff Halper speaks to us from northern Minnesota where he is completing a speaking tour to cities in parts of Canada and Minnesota. Jeff speaks not only about Gaza, but also of the suppression of the Palestinians living in the West Bank as well as within the state of Israel itself where their voices are also being silenced.

ICAHD WEBINAR TOMORROW

APARTHEID & TERRORISM INTENSIFY IN WEST BANK

Participants include:

Rasheed Khudairy, coordinator of the Jordan Valley Solidarity Campaign. Rasheed will speak about Israel’s water apartheid policies that are impacting on the herding communities who live under harsh conditions in the Jordan Valley

WATCH

Record Israeli land grab fuels already soaring tension in the West Bank

Serag el Hagazi, The Conversation, July 13

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