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Land confiscation
Israel’s illegal acts of resource pillaging in the occupied West Bank are “benefitting” the Palestinian population, according to the Israeli high court. Read more about Stealing Palestine's resources is illegal, despite Israeli court ruling
Twenty Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem area, in which 2,600 persons live, are facing displacement to make way for Israeli settlement expansion Read more about 2,600 Bedouins threatened with displacement as Israeli settlements expand
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
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 postponement of an Israeli eviction order in East Jerusalem has spared the Somrein family from being made homeless — for the time being. Read more about Eviction stalled in East Jerusalem; family awaits new hearing
Zionism seeks to erase and rewrite history in order to avoid accepting its ugly colonial legacy. Read more about Unmasking Gershom Gorenberg, historian and apologist for ethnic cleansing
Despite living in his home for nearly fifty years, and despite the fact there are legal documents clearly stating that the land is owned by the Somrein family, Mohammed Somrein’s land has been declared absentee property and thus subject to confiscation. Read more about Family of 12 faces eviction in East Jerusalem
Palestinian olive farmers face violence from both the settlers and the Israeli military during the harvest season. Read more about Harvesting olives as a statement of resistance
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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