ICAHD Statement on Shireen abu Akleh

Posted May 12, 2022, by & filed under ICAHD statements, News.

Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head during her coverage of an Israeli raid in Jenin (AFP/Al Jazeera) Rest in peace Shireen abu Akleh. Your short life was so important to your people’s struggle, and to all of us fighting injustice, trying, like you to tell the truth. We have always said that the best… Read more »

ICAHD Statement on Masafer Yatta – 8 May 2022

Posted May 9, 2022, by & filed under House Demolitions, ICAHD statements, Masafer Yatta, News.

THE ISRAELI COMMITTEE AGAINST HOUSE DEMOLITIONS (ICAHD) CONDEMNS THE RULING OF THE ISRAELI SUPREME COURT PERMITTING THE FORCIBLE TRANSFER OF PALESTINIANS FROM THEIR HOMES AND LANDS IN THE WEST BANK REGION OF MASAFER YATTA On May 5th, the Israeli Supreme Court quietly, almost furtively, dismissed the petitions of the residents of eight Palestinian villages in… Read more »

ICAHD Statement on Amnesty International’s report ‘Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity’

Posted February 3, 2022, by & filed under ICAHD statements, News.

  February 2, 2022   The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) welcomes Amnesty International’s valuable and comprehensive report, Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity. Placing Israel’s apartheid regime squarely within the framework of human rights, it sets out in great detail just how Israel’s “institutionalized regime of systematic… Read more »

ICAHD CONDEMNS ISRAEL’S DESIGNATION OF PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AS “TERRORIST GROUPS”

Posted October 25, 2021, by & filed under ICAHD statements, News.

The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) joins dozens of other Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organizations in condemning the Israeli government’s alarming designation of six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as “terror organizations” affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), classified by Israel, the United States and the European… Read more »

125 YEARS OF DISPLACEMENT: AN ICAHD STATEMENT ON THE ISRAELI ASSAULT ON OCCUPIED PALESTINE

Posted May 11, 2021, by & filed under House Demolitions, ICAHD statements, News.

11th May 2021 ICAHD CALLS FOR THE IMMEDIATE END TO ALL HOUSE DEMOLITIONS, EVICTIONS AND DISCRIMINATORY PLANNING. LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD BY THE PEOPLE AND BY GOVERNMENTS! For the past several weeks, Israel’s police and paramilitaries, together with violent settlement groups, have escalated their brutal attacks against Palestinians in Jerusalem. Specifically targeted are the… Read more »

Statement signed by unions and civil society organisations including ICAHD UK calls on the British Government to take action over Israel’s ethnic cleansing of neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem

Posted May 6, 2021, by & filed under East Jerusalem, ICAHD statements, News.

Statement calls on British Government, public bodies and civil society to recognise the laws of Israel to be inherently discriminatory Comes as over 1,500 Palestinians face threat of home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and Israel’s attempt to evict more families from the Palestinian neighbour of Sheikh Jarrah A statement signed by 14 British unions… Read more »

ODSC Statement on Annexation – 29 April 2020

Posted May 10, 2020, by & filed under ICAHD statements, News, One Democratic State Campaign.

Below is a Call from the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) — a Palestinian-led organization in Palestine — for the establishment of a single democratic state of equal rights for all its citizens (including Palestinian refugees and their family who choose to come home). It notes that a single state already exists de facto between… Read more »

ICAHD’s statement in response to Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ – 29 January 2020

Posted January 29, 2020, by & filed under ICAHD statements, International, News.

The Trump “Deal of the Century” is nothing if not predictable. The product of a small group of Orthodox Jewish Americans willingly adopting the long-standing plans of the Israeli right, it merely reaffirms what Israeli policy has in fact done “on the ground” over the past 53 years. In fact, we in ICAHD made a… 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 »