A campaigning group set up by ICAHD UK and Corporate Occupation / Stop the Demolitions Protecting Palestinian Families is a campaigning group whose particular focus is on the effect of Israel’s policy of destroying Palestinian homes and livelihoods on children and their families. This campaign group operates under the umbrella of Stop the Demolitions. In… Read more »
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JCB Campaign – Sample Letters
Write to JCB and your MP following the UN’s release of the list of companies that work in Israel’s illegal settlements. 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… Read more »
JCB Campaign – Photographs
JCB machines demolishing homes and structures More demolitions in Khirbet Humsah in the northern Jordan Valley on 8th February 2021. Monday, 8 February 2021, Israel again confiscated most of the residential structures and livestock enclosures in the community of Khirbet Humsah al-Foqa, located in Area C in the north of the Jordan Valley. Israel’s Civil… Read more »
JCB Campaign – Webinars
Sharen Green – Protecting Palestinian Families Annie O’Gara – Stop the JNF Hilary Smith – Boycott Israel Network Martin Kemp – UK Palestine Mental Health Network Linda Ramsden – ICAHD UK
JCB Campaign – Videos
Israeli forces entered Masafer Yatta accompanied by bulldozers on 1 June 2022. 8 villages in the region are at immediate risk of mass destruction and displacement. This is settler-colonial elimination taking place before our eyes. Israeli forces raided al Fakhit, one of the villages in Masafer Yatta at risk of immediate forces displacement, destroying 5… Read more »
Government Response to Demolitions
UK Government Statement on the Demolition of Bedouin Village of Humsa Al-Baqai’a The Bedouin village of Humsa Al-Baqai’a housed 73 people, including 41 children, all of whom are now homeless. Published 6 November 2020 by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Rt Hon James Cleverly MP Following the demolition of Humsa Al- Baqai’a,… Read more »
ICAHD UK Annual Appeal – A Call For Your Support
Dear friends, At a time when Covid-19 has been sweeping through Palestine, Israel’s response has been the outpouring of more brutality upon the Palestinian people. The highest number of demolitions were recorded since 2016 along with the single highest case of mass demolitions for the last ten years. ICAHD UK has worked hard to spread… Read more »
October 2020 Demolition and Displacement Report
1 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 21 October 22 October 24 October 26 October 27 October 28 October Overall 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… Read more »
Why Address the NSPCC?
We are asking the NPSCC to live up to its values by dropping JCB as a donor, taking a moral lead which can persuade JCB that servicing Israel’s home demolition policy is wrong. What are the NSPCC’s Values? All of the following are quotations, taken directly from the NSPCC website page “Living our Values” where… Read more »
The Effects of Home Demolitions
Video evidence: We can judge for ourselxes the human impact. In all of the following JCB equipment is used, profiting the Bamford family and, via JCB donations, supporting the NSPCC. This is the short B’tselem video which we have given to NSPCC ( B’tselem is an Israeli Human Rights rganisation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVEDJKdxkGg&feature=emb_logo