Rosemary Garsed presents Rudina Jaber with a gift from New Zealand New Zealand teacher Rosemary Garsed’s life has been turned upside down since visiting Palestine In June 2016 Rosemary joined a pilgrimage group to Jordan/Palestine/Israel with members of her church. She was so challenged by issues she encountered she returned to Amman to spend… Read more »
By Jeff Halper, Founder of ICAHD 14 September 2019 I’ve been struggling to find something profound, insightful, even mildly interesting about Israel’s elections, including the (yawn) drama around Netanyahu’s announcement that after the elections he will annex the Jordan Valley, followed by all the settlements, but – he emphasized – without giving one Palestinian Israeli… Read more »
A report by ICAHD Executive Committee member Patrick Darnes 8th September 2019 On the 2nd & 3rd September Deborah and myself joined the protests against the Government-backed Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) Arms Fair which takes place every two years and is currently located at the Excel Exhibition Centre in East London. We were… Read more »
During the month of August 2019, at least 19 structures were demolished in the occupied Palestinian Territories (including East Jerusalem) by Israeli forces, displacing at least 19 people- including 6 children- and affecting a further 480 people (according to OCHA oPT). Al-‘Aragib, an unrecognised Bedouin village in the Naqab desert has been demolished five times… Read more »
The ICAHD family mourns the passing of our good friend and supporter Professor David Pegg, and we extend our condolences to his wife and partner Dr Monica Wusteman and all the family. David had a distinguished career as a clinical scientist and academic. He had posts in London, Cambridge and York where he was made… Read more »
A further report by a member of ICAHD UK who is currently on the West Bank with the Christian Peacemakers Team. Whatever divisions exist among the Palestinian people – and there are many – one determination links them all and that is the determination not to be removed from the land. Thus simply “staying put”,… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »