Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group

Welcome. The Brighton Tubas Region Friendship and Solidarity Group is a network aiming at fostering links between community organisations in Tubas, occupied Palestine and Brighton. The Tubas Region, which includes the Northern Jordan Valley, is an area Israel wants to ethnically cleanse and annex. Israel is doing this by making life impossible for the people of the valley.

Piping water to Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley

Updates: November 2009 / January 2010

Throughout the Jordan Valley there’s a growing movement of communities using direct action to challenge Israel’s illegal occupation.

Robert Fisk: In the West Bank's stony hills, Palestine is slowly dying

In the richest of the Occupied lands, Israeli bureaucracy is driving Palestinians out of their homes.
Robert Fisk reports from Jiftlik Saturday, 30 January 2010

See original article in the Independent

Al Jazeera Video: Israel floods settlements with subsidies

"Israel has announced a partial moratorium on settlement construction.

"Yet, at the same time, it has invested in those already established in a bid to solidify their existence.

"In the Jordan Valley there are 22 settlements viewed as illegal under international law.

Brighton boycott protesters descend on Waitrose

Waitrose boycott action 1Sixteen activists held a supermarket invasion today at Waitrose in Brighton to protest at their continued sale of fruit, vegetables and herbs from illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank.

Maskiot: The Dawn of a New Era

“This place has everything...The area desperately needs repopulating”
Yossi –Maskiot settler

Al Mazra’a Al Qibliya

Since 2007 the Brighton Tubas group has been in contact with a village called Al Mazra’a Al Qibliya, near Bir Zeit in the West Bank. After ending up there for a demonstration during one of the delegations the group felt that the village needed continued support despite being outside of our twinning area. The people of Al Mazra’a have been experiencing continuous settler violence and during the last few years the surrounding Israeli settlement Talmon B has confiscated over 2,000 dunums of the village’s land.

New Report: Settlement expansion and ethnic cleansing in Palestine: A Jordan Valley case study June 2009

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Valley of Grief

For the last month our TV screens and newspapers have been filled with reports of Israel’s massacre of the people of Gaza. The bloodshed and brutality have caused outrage across the world and calls for international actions to hold Israel to account are growing. Whilst this is going on, the people on the other side of Palestine continue their struggle in relative silence against the gradual ethnic cleansing of their land.