Dear Friend, Thanks to your support, we’re now very close to completing the fundraising to meet Rebuilding Alliance’s commitment to construct the first three homes in the Rebuilding to Remain program. More challenging is whether or not the Palestinian National Authority will be able to meet their
Read more →Dear Friend, Thank you again for making it possible to realize a dream in the creation of the first Palestinian Birthing Center in Area C, the Jordan River Valley. We’re getting closer to project implementation as we work to address three important questions: (1) Customs Approval, (2)
Read more →Hello Friends, We have some good news! We have been notified by our friends at Playgrounds for Palestine that they will provide a grant to allows us to begin construction of a third Abir’s Garden Playground right away. Ideally, we would like to use your donations to
Read more →Dear Friends, The immediate crisis in Al Aqaba Village has been averted, thanks to the intervention of so many people at all levels: Al Aqaba’s Mayor and villagers, Governor Marwan Toubassi, activists on site, grassroots advocates, Congressmen and Congresswomen and their staff, the U.S. State Department, the UN, and many
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Quoted from Mondoweiss article: “On the Fourth of July, when their American friends are on holiday, Israeli High Court Justice Esther Hayut will decide whether or not to demolish a Palestinian family’s home, their goat barns, and three other small businesses owned by other villagers. The plaintiffs,
Read more →Quoted from the article: “There had been this week very much media attention for five other houses in a very different part of the West Bank – the five houses evacuated by settlers at the Ulpana Hill in the settlement of Beit El. The five houses in
Read more →Quoted from the Mondoweiss article: “This is one of the few times since 2001 that the IDF has conducted live-fire training exercises in al-Aqaba, but incidents involving the army entering the village have occurred more recently. On February 22, 2012, over 250 Israeli troops entered the village to camp
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Another development now underway in the village of Al Aqaba: Several Israel military jeeps and personnel carriers, 11 vehicles total, moved into the village this evening at dusk. Israeli soldiers with sleeping bags seem to be preparing to conduct a training exercise and stay the night in
Read more →El-Mahrur is an agricultural neighbourhood of Beit Jala, a few hundred metres from the settlement Har Gilo. On Tuesday, 3rd April, 2012, before dawn, an IDF force arrived and demolished four agricultural buildings, a cistern, and 55 electricity poles. Questions & queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il
Read more →Demolition of houses in the Jordan Valley 29.3.2012 Date: 29/03/2012 ,Afternoon Observers: Dorit Hershkowitz, Dafna Banai (reporting, taking photos) Translator: Charles K. On Monday, 26.3.12, darkness fell on Khabis Sawaftah’s family. While the family members were busy with their morning tasks, two bulldozers, 12 vehicles from the Civil Administration, Border Police personnel
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