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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. Read more about "We will rebuild": Hebron family resists unrelenting settler violence
Settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has risen 40 percent since 2010, and 165 percent since 2009, according to the UN. Protesting a wave of settler attacks on her home and property, one elderly Palestinian woman in Hebron went on hunger strike. Read more about Hebron woman goes on hunger strike over settler attacks
A new book about the Palestine Kairos Document tells the story of the Christian churches’ effort to communicate the suffering imposed by Israel on Palestinians. Read more about It's the right moment for churches to pay attention to Israel's occupation
Jillian Kestler-D’Amours talks to The Electronic Intifada about her new film focusing on the Bedouin village of al-Araqib and the women, men and children who resist displacement by the Israeli government and the Jewish National Fund. Read more about New film documents resilience of Bedouin village destroyed 30 times
Palestinians in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddoum have been holding regular protests against the Israeli occupation and settlement encroachment. Read more about West Bank village steps up protests against Israel's theft of land
The Israeli government plans to forcibly displace 27,000 Bedouins in the occupied West Bank within three to six years. Read more about Israel finds new "home" for Bedouins: a garbage dump
Skyrocketing Israeli policies of home demolitions in Area C have displaced more than 650 Palestinians In the first six months of 2011 alone. Read more about Demolitions by Israel increase fivefold, says new UN report
According to Hassan Saifi, a representative of the ministry for religious affairs in Gaza, a quarter of the Gaza Strip’s 800 mosques were damaged or destroyed in the Israeli attack on Gaza in winter 2008-09. Read more about Cash shortage hampers rebuilding of mosques destroyed by Israel
Israeli military forces have demolished 27 houses in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank over the last two weeks, rendering more than 140 Palestinians homeless. The state of siege in the Jordan Valley has particularly impacted women. Read more about "Now it's all gone": Women cope with siege in Jordan Valley
One may not expect to see construction in a village where approximately 80 percent of the homes are currently pending demolition. But in Izbat al-Tabib, a small village in the occupied West Bank, that is just what one will find. Read more about Izbat al-Tabib village resists land confiscation, demolition orders
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