land confiscation

Palestinian national strike to stop Israel's "Prawer plan" ethnic cleansing

Submitted by Linah Alsaafin on Mon, 07/15/2013 - 11:38
Israel’s Prawer plan aims to forcibly displace up to 50,000 Palestinian Bedouins in the Naqab desert, confiscate 800,000 dunums of land, and confine the Bedouins to one percent of the land. Palestinian across the country are calling for a day of “Anger Strike” and plan to take to the streets in their thousands.

Israeli highway hits Palestinian village "like a tsunami"

Maath Musleh
28 February 2013

Residents of Beit Safafa, near Jerusalem, are resisting a settler highway that would cause irreparable harm to their village.

Podcast: "Israel's drunk with power," says Stop the Wall's Jamal Juma'

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 17:27
Jamal Juma’ of the Stop the Wall campaign talks about grassroots Palestinian resistance to Israel’s escalating colonization project.

Israel's land theft means Gaza camels have few places to graze

Rami Almeghari
Gaza Strip
23 January 2013

Camel’s milk is used as a traditional remedy.

The future of Palestine's grassroots struggle: Nilin activist Saeed Amireh interviewed

Maureen Clare Murphy
Chicago
23 August 2012
Saeed Amireh tells The Electronic Intifada about Nilin village’s decade of struggle against Israel’s wall and where the movement must go next.

Podcast: This week in EI headlines - 26 April 2012

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 21:31

In our first podcast: Updates on the collective Palestinian hunger strikes in Israeli jails, stories of land confiscation and home evictions from around the West Bank, news from the BDS movement, and Ali Abunimah discusses three important videos we published this week.

Al-Walajah village explores theater as a form of resistance

Ben Rivers
al-Walaja
25 April 2012
In a unique protest action in the threatened village of al-Walaja, residents and local artists harnessed the power of music, theater, dance and poetry.

"I will never give up our house": Sabri Gharib kept promise to resist Israeli settlement until his final day

Hilde Reksjø and
Maria York
Beit Ijza
20 April 2012
Surrounded on all sides by an Israeli settlement, a fence, walls and gates, the Gharib family’s situation is one of the most extreme and unsettling cases highlighting the effects of Israel’s illegal settlement building in the West Bank. Gharib died just days after this interview.

"Present absentee" keeps fighting against Israel's wall in al-Walaja

Tanzil Chowdhury
al-Walaja
18 April 2012
Sheerin al-Araj, a resident of al-Walaja village, is fighting tooth and nail against Israel’s encroaching settlement projects and the wall, which both continue to rapidly confiscate more village land.

"We will rebuild": Hebron family resists unrelenting settler violence

Emily Lawrence
Hebron
3 February 2012
Despite chronic attacks on their homes and property by settlers, while Israeli forces continue to confiscate more and more land to serve the nearby settlement, the Jaber family hold fast to both their heritage and their future.
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