The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)

did you know?

More than 130,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished in Israel and the Occupied Palestine Territory (OPT) since 1947.

In 2020, ICAHD analysis revealed that 865 structures were demolished and 1,014 people displaced in the OPT with a further 5,615 people directly affected. The Negev Coexistence Forum reports 2,586 buildings demolished in the Negev.

View our latest Monthly Demolition and Displacement Report

Actions You Can Take

React to the 7th demolition of Humsa Al-Bqai’a

Read the latest edition of ‘Obstacles to Peace’

JCB and NSPCC Campaign Actions

Read Jeff Halper’s Article ‘The Palestinian Struggle with Erasure and Instrumentality’

Actions you can take against ongoing ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem’

Read ICAHD’s new Fact Sheet on demolitions

Write to your political representative

News & Updates

Israel’s settler colonialism & ICAHD’s one state position

ICAHD has always been a political organisation that has focussed on the “big political picture”
We offer critical analysis of Israeli policy even while engaging in resistance and protest on the ground, and international advocacy abroad.

ICAHD is committed to bringing peace with justice to our tortured land
This is not a conflict between two equal parties.

We confront Zionism as settler colonialism whose aim has always been to transform an Arab country into a Jewish one (Judaisation)
Israel’s demolition of the homes of the indigenous Palestinian population is part of its ethnic cleansing agenda to eliminate its national and cultural presence.

We call for all colonial structures of domination and control to be dismantled and for the creation of a single democratic state offering equal rights for all citizens in a shared pluralistic society. Read more…