A residential building was destroyed and neighbouring properties damaged in an Israeli strike on the Sheikh Ridwan district of northern Gaza City on 19 October 2023 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor] 19 October 2023 The present crisis did not begin on October 7th, as Israel (and Biden) would have it. Focusing on immediate events, particularly… Read more »
Here is an important and timely statement by our Palestine-led partner organisation the One Democratic State Campaign. October 15, 2023 The Palestinian people in Gaza are undergoing a campaign of genocide by their Israeli jailers. Confining two and half million people to a tiny area (made even smaller by the Israeli army’s order that… Read more »
I am going to bed tonight in full certainty that as I sleep, Israel, a member state of the UN, abetted, armed, and egged on by the US and the other G-7 countries that rule the world, is committing genocide in Gaza. Confining two and half million people to a tiny area (while cynically and… Read more »
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9 October 2023 ICAHD Statement on Hamas incursion and Israel’s disproportionate retaliation ICAHD mourns the loss of all lives, Israeli and Palestinian, whether in the Hamas incursion or in the course of Israel’s disproportionate retaliation. All lives are precious, period. Precisely for that reason, however, we need to emphasize the political context if… Read more »
26 September 2023, demolished house, An Nuwei’ma Al-Fauka Bedouins, photo by OCHA oPT Notes: There are four categories of demolitions: Punitive demolitions: Houses demolished as punishment for the actions of people associated with the houses. Administrative demolitions: Houses demolished for lack of a building permit. This happens in Area C and in East Jerusalem,… Read more »
“One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel: It’s Time to Get Political”. Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign. Jeff is the author of An Israeli in Palestine on his work against the Occupation; Obstacles to Peace,… Read more »
House demolition, Humsa- Al Farsheh, Nablus, 17 August 2023, photo taken by the affected family Notes: There are four categories of demolitions: Punitive demolitions: Houses demolished as punishment for the actions of people associated with the houses. Administrative demolitions: Houses demolished for lack of a building permit. This happens in Area C and in… Read more »
