JCB equipment being used to demolished homes and other structures essential for life JCB allows its bulldozers and other equipment to be used in the illegal demolition of Palestinian homes and other essential structures such as irrigation systems and other agricultural infrastructure, walls and livelihood structures contrary to international law. View details of our campaign… Read more »
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End Home Demolitions – An Introduction
As an Israeli peace and human rights organization, ICAHD focuses its activities around resistance to Israel’s policy of demolishing Palestinian homes, both in Israel and in the Occupied Palestine Territory (OPT). The demolition policy is part of Israel’s attempt to Judaize Palestine, to transform an Arab country into a Jewish one. During and after the… Read more »
Monthly Demolition and Displacement Reports
Photo: One of the homes demolished in February in Al Walaja – owner: Ramzi Abu Hammad ICAHD has prepared monthly reports of demolitions, and the associated numbers displaced and otherwise affected, since May 2017. The most recent report may be viewed here All our reports may be downloaded via the links below. 2024 March 2024… Read more »
Categories of Home Demolitions
ICAHD estimates that about 52,000 Palestinian homes were demolished in the Naqba and more than 55,000 in the Occupied Territory since 1967, based on information gleaned from the Israeli Ministry of Interior, the Jerusalem Municipality, the Civil Administration, OCHA and other UN sources, Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, ICAHD’s… Read more »
Forthcoming Extended Study Tours
Visit Palestine/Israel on an Extended Study Tour that will change your life 2-12 November 2020 With the option of extending your stay by 2 or 5 days to help rebuild a small home for a family in collaboration with the Good Shepherd Collective – details here Jeff Halper explains Israel’s Matrix of Control over… Read more »
ICAHD joins in with fellow Israeli human rights organisations thanking international activists for attempting to break the Gaza siege
Letter published here. February 2020 We are Israeli groups and organizations, active against our government’s violations of Palestinian rights, which include dispossession, occupation, colonization, house demolition, torture and apartheid. We would like to thank Gaza 2020: Breaking the Siege (1) – a group of international activists, including members of parliament, who carried out a… Read more »
Atta Jaber and his Family
You can support Atta, Rudina and their family by donating here Atta Jaber’s resilience is tested yet again For over thirty years, their entire married life, Atta and Rudina Jaber and their children have known nothing but oppression and cruelty from Israeli authorities and the extreme religious Jewish settlers from nearby Kiryat Arba in Hebron… Read more »
End Home Demolitions – Sample lobby letters
We welcome this long-awaited report which identifies 112 companies that are involved in business activities in settlements in the Occupied Palestine Territory which violate Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. To see the statement which includes a link naming the companies click here. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25542&LangID=E JCB bulldozers and pneumatic drills have been used to demolish… Read more »
The ICAHD UK Annual Conference 2020
Saturday 30 May 2020 at the Amnesty International UK Human Rights Action Centre, 25 New Inn Yard, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3EA 11.15am-5.00pm Since 1967, when Israel’s occupation began, more than 55,000 Palestinian homes and structures vital for living have been demolished in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza in violation of international law,… Read more »
January 2020 Demolition and Displacement Report
During the month of January 2020, at least 44 structures were demolished in the occupied Palestinian Territories (including East Jerusalem) by Israeli forces, displacing at least 87 people- including 56 children- and affecting a further 205 people (according to OCHA oPT). In the Naqab desert, the entire Bedouin village of al-Aragib has been demolished three… Read more »