 Jeff Halper in Italy & Amsterdam
May 12, 2008
Jeff Halper
Jeff Halper, ICAHD's Director-Coordinator, continues his six-month advocacy campaign (with short home visits). He was just in the US where, among other things, he convened a meeting of 22 "strateg . . . |  Born to Demolish
April 11, 2008
Jeff Halper
It was another of those routine tragedies that are never publicized. At eight in the morning we at ICAHD (the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) received a call that the Border Police, I . . . |
 More Israeli Repression - Another Day of Home Demolitions
April 14, 2008
Fred Schlomka
Yunis Sbeih, his wife and eight children had lived in their home for four years in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Anata. This morning while Mr. Sbeih was consulting with his lawyer about a hom . . . |  Israeli & Palestinian Activists Rebuild Demolished Homes
April 14, 2008
Fred Schlomka
On 12th April over 40 Israeli activists from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv arrived in a West Bank village for a day of solidarity and work with Palestinians. Two homes destroyed by the Israeli government . . . |
 ICAHD's "Get Off The Bus Tour" July 2008
March 4, 2008
ICAHD-UK
This tour is offered by ICAHD-UK and is open to participants from any country. This is an intensive look at Israel/Palestine on the ground, visiting key icons of the Occupation and leaders in the . . . |  Hamdan Family Home Demolished - ICAHD Resists
April 11, 2008
 Karin Laub, Virginia Paradinas, & ICAHD staff
During the Summer 2007, International volunteers, together with Israelis and Palestinians, rebuilt the home of the Hamdan Family in East Jerusalem which had been demolished for lack of a permit. O . . . |
 Al-Haq’s Documentary, "In the Spider’s Web"
March 13, 2008
Directed by Hannah Musleh
In the Spider's Web is a total of 47-minute long documentary produced in 2004 by Al-Haq and directed by Hannah Musleh. The film is part of Al-Haq's campaign to stop collective punishment practiced . . . |  ICAHD Launches New Web Site - www.annapolismonitor.net
March 12, 2008
Jeff Halper
On November 27, 2007, amidst great fanfare (accompanied by a "lowering of expectations"), the United States and Israel - with the Palestinians, the Europeans, the Russians and the UN pulled in by . . . |
 ICAHD volunteers rebuild Bedouin Bridge
February 17, 2008
Fred Schlomka
ICAHD’s Constructing Peace Campaign recently rebuilt a bridge for Bedouin villagers of Ramadin in the South Hebron Hills. The bridge had been destroyed by the IDF as part of the Israeli government . . . |  JNF Signs Will Mention destroyed Palestinian Villages
February 4, 2008
Yoav Stern (Haaretz Feb. 3rd, 2008)
Following numerous requests on behalf of Zochrot organization, the Jewish National Found (KKL-JNF) obligated itself to change the wording on all signs detailing history of an area, in a way that w . . . |
 Umm al-Fahm turns out lights, Israelis rally against Gaza siege
January 27, 2008
Jack Khoury and Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondents
The Israeli-Arab town of Umm al-Fahm shut off its electricity for one hour on Saturday night in an intentional blackout, and a torch-lit march was held in solidarity with the residents of the Gaza . . . |  Beit Ommar under siege
January 27, 2008
PNN
Eighteen year old Mohammed Awwad was killed on Friday in the West Bank’s Beit Ommar by Israeli forces. At least 10 others were wounded throughout the day. Among them was Palestine Solidarity Proje . . . |
 A Generous Offer to the Palestinian Refugees?
January 21, 2008
Neta Golan
Anyone familiar with Israeli politics, was not surprised that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not acknowledge Israel's occupation in his speech at Annapolis. What was surprising was, that, . . . |  End the Siege - Relief Convoy to Gaza
January 21, 2008
ICAHD staff
Gaza is under siege! Hundreds of commodities needed for maintaining daily life are not allowed into the Strip, by order of the Government of Israel. Even the entry of water filters - vital for pur . . . |
 The Fading of the Two-State Solution
January 18, 2008
Yacov Ben Efrat (reprinted from Challenge Magazine)
After returning from the Annapolis Conference, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Haaretz (November 28, 2007) that "the State of Israel cannot endure unless a Palestinian state comes into bei . . . |  SUPPORT ISRAELI RELIEF CONVOY TO GAZA NOW!
January 21, 2008
Jewish Peace News
As most of you already know, this is a time of tremendous humanitarian and medical crisis for the 1.5 million Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. A group of Israeli organizations is plannin . . . |
 Bush Peace Hallucinations Continue
January 10, 2008
Sam Bahour
U.S. President George Bush landed in Israel yesterday on his first Presidential trip to the country. He participated in a press conference in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in . . . |  Israel's Quiet War
January 5, 2008
Fred Schlomka
While Ehud Olmert and Abu Mazen were wheeling and dealing at Annapolis, several Israeli government ministries and security agencies were deploying their combined resources in a massive operation a . . . |
 ICAHD’S SUMMER REBUILDING CAMP 2008
December 14, 2007
ICAHD staff
Annually since 2003, ICAHD has made it possible for international and Israeli activists/volunteers to join together with the local Palestinian community to rebuild the home of a Palestinian family . . . |  “Holiday Greetings” – Massive Home Demolitions in the Israeli Negev.
December 12, 2007
Yeela Raanan, RCUV
Yesterday, the seventh day of Hannuka and the second day of the fast before the Moslem holiday of El Adha, Israeli police accompanied bulldozers in a horrific day of demolitions in the unrecognize . . . |
 The Har Homa Test
December 10, 2007
Akiva Eldar (Haaretz)
It is difficult to think of a place more suitable than Har Homa for holding the first test in the spirit of Annapolis. The comparison between Har Homa Crisis No. 2 and the development of Har Homa . . . |  When the Roadmap is a One Way Street
December 1, 2007
Jeff Halper
One may well think that the struggle inside the Jewish community of Israel is between those of the political right, who want to maintain the settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank so as t . . . |
 The Annapolis Conference in the Shadow of the One State Reality
December 4, 2007
ICAHD staff
On 28 November 2007, Meron Benvenisti presented a lecture in West Jerusalem at the mo . . . |  Coming to terms with the right of return
November 27, 2007
Tom Pessah
Damn it, those neighbors!
It’s a hot and humid August in Tel Aviv, and I have no wish to leave my old room in my parents’ house. During two years of studying in the States I had forgotten . . . |
 The Occupation on Our Heads - ICAHD exhibit
November 5, 2007
icahd staff
ICAHD held an opening ceremony for the new exhibit on Saturday 3rd November documenting the traumas and struggles of the Shawamreh family who have had their home demolished four times. Since Israe . . . |  Whose Road Map
November 8, 2007
Jeff Halper - Jerusalem Post
As did his pronouncements last August in Jericho, where Prime Minister Ehud Olmert indicated a willingness to withdraw from an area equivalent to 100% of the occupied territories, his latest decla . . . |
 Facts on the Ground
November 6, 2007
Scott Kennedy - AFSC
There are few conflicts layered with so much mythology or governed by such contradictory narratives as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. People who have not chosen to study the conflict or are not . . . |  40 Years of House Demolitions
October 24, 2007
MIFTAH
On June 10th 1967, the Israeli government demolished the Moroccan Quarter in the Old City of East Jerusalem to make easier public access to the Western Wall. After the Israeli army called on the i . . . |
 Jahalin Bedouin Refugees - Nowhere Left to Go
October 28, 2007
New ICAHD Publication - Edited by Angela Godfrey-Goldstein
Download 50-page booklet (6MB pdf file).
Over the past few months, Jahalin Bedouin have remai . . . |  Jerusalem Dispossessed - a Photography Exhibit by ActiveStills
October 19, 2007
ActiveStills
An exhibition by the photographers' collective ActiveStills, documenting the dispossession of indigenous Palestinians from their native city, Jerusalem, amid rapid expansion of Israeli settlements . . . |
 Demolition Statistics Since 1967
October 11, 2007
Jeff Halper
These are figures for Palestinian homes. If approximately 120,000 Druze and Arabs were expelled from the Syria Golan Heights in 1967 and their villages (134 in number) were completely demolished, . . . |  Collective Punishment in Gaza
September 25, 2007
El Mezan Center for Human Rights
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) escalated its aggression against the Gaza Strip where it killed four Palestinians, including a minor who was crashed by bulldozer. Seven Palestinians were also . . . |
PRESS RELEASE - 18,000 Homes Campaign
October 11, 2007
ICAHD staff
For immediate release.
ICAHD, The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions has launched a new web page, designed to bring home the enormity of Israel’s house demolition policy. Delivering . . . |  Who Needs the JNF ?
September 24, 2007
Haaretz Editorial
Tomorrow the High Court of Justice will hear a petition against the Jewish National Fund (JNF) from Arab citizens who have been barred from acquiring land in Carmiel, because the JNF does not leas . . . |
 Constructing Peace Campaign - Summer Report
September 17, 2007
Fred Schlomka
While ICAHD: The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions has been rebuilding Palestinian homes for ten years, the expansion of the organization's building program this year has been unpreceden . . . |  "Unrecognized" Palestinians
September 9, 2007
Stephen Lendman
Israel's population today is about 7,150,000. About 5.4 million are Jews (76%) including 400,000 Jewish settlers in over 200 expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank tha . . . |
