The Difficult Passage from a Two-State ‘Solution’ to Decolonisation in Palestine/Israel

Posted August 21, 2019, by & filed under News.

By Jeff Halper, Founder ICAHD   It’s happening, but slowly. Surveying the special issue of the Palestine/Israel Journal devoted to the threat that the hallowed “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian “conflict” may be in jeopardy – or, as the issue’s title has it, “at a dangerous crossroads” – one gets the feeling of half-hearted, almost… Read more »

Hebron Diary – 1st August 2019 – Home

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A further report by a member of ICAHD UK who is currently on the West Bank with the Christian Peacemakers Team. Ten days have now passed since the agonising house demolitions in East Jerusalem. Hundreds of Israeli troops and border police stormed the Wadi al-Hummus area of Sur Bahir in the early hours of July… Read more »

July 2019 Demolition and Displacement Report

Posted August 2, 2019, by & filed under House Demolitions, Monthly Demolition Report, News.

During the month of July 2019, at least 66 structures were demolished in the occupied Palestinian Territories (including East Jerusalem) by Israeli forces, displacing at least 47 people- including 26 children- and affecting a further 7,952 people (according to OCHA oPT). All the demolitions and confiscations were carried out on grounds of lacking an Israeli-issued… Read more »

Palestine and Israel: Working for a Just Peace

Posted July 29, 2019, by & filed under News.

Wednesday 7 August 8pm – 10pm at The Lighthouse, 43-45 West Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9DB   If your in the Edinburgh area, come along to a dynamic double bill: Daphna Baram, Director of ICAHD UK; and Jane Dallas Ross, recently back from three months working with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in the Occupied Palestinian… Read more »

A Statement by Jeff Halper on Demolitions in Sur Baher

Posted July 22, 2019, by & filed under East Jerusalem, House Demolitions, ICAHD statements, Jeff Halper, News.

As I write this the Israeli military is demolishing 70 homes — perhaps as many as 100 in the end — in an absolutely illegal action approved by Israel’s Supreme Court. Briefly, the Apartheid Wall coursing through the West Bank and East Jerusalem does not conform to any agreed boundary; it is built wherever Israel… Read more »

More News from Hebron

Posted July 21, 2019, by & filed under News.

A further report from our ICAHD member currently in Hebron with the Christian Peacemakers Team… After dark, the evenings are punctuated by fireworks and bin collections. The fireworks end around midnight but the bins may clank away into the early hours depending on the day. The earliest call to prayer begins around 4am followed by… Read more »