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  • Al Jiftlik: Rebuilding demolished homes
    Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 12:19

    Life in the Kazaya area of Al Jiftlik has never been easy. When I first visited the area in 2007 the future for the community there looked bleak. A house belonging to a newly married couple had recently been demolished and rubble was covering large parts of the ground, whilst there were demolition orders in place on several further structures.

  • Water Project Update March 2010
    Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 11:57

    In Brighton we have now raised £4,400 of the £5000 we have committed to donate to the project. Thanks to everyone who has organised fundraising and made donations.

    To see a case study of the first community to receive running water from the Project see our article and photos at http://www.brightonpalestine.org/node/564

  • Zoba Communiity - Resisting Ethnic Cleansing
    Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 23:48

    The Zoba community are withstanding Israel's attempts to remove them from their land with community action and resilience.

    If you had come in here in 2007, you would have found a village destroyed, with just one house left standing - surrounded by rubble evidencing the remains of all the homes, and the water well, demolished by the Israelis.

  • Gandhi Gassed in Bil'in
    Sunday, March 7, 2010 - 10:45

    Demonstrators dressed as Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King visited the village of Bil In today (05/03/2010) to mark the beginning of Israeli Apartheid Week. Over a hundred people marched to the gate of Israel's apartheid wall separating the village from its land.

  • Rebuilt Houses in the Al Jiflik Area
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 15:22

    In the last few years the Jordan Valley Solidarity project has rebuilt or renovated over a hundred houses in the valley. Palestinians living in area C are prevented from building permanent structures by the Israeli Civil Military administration. These regulations are enforced by house demolitions.

  • Al Jiftlik Training Centre and Meeting House
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 14:52

    Al Jiftlik Meeting House - Feb 2010Al Jiftlik Meeting House - Feb 2010

  • Update on Fasayil School and Clinic
    Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 18:52

    Fasayil School Basketball court

    Building of Basketball CourtBuilding of Basketball Court

  • Tubas student denied entry to UK
    Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 18:35

    Emad, a student from Al Quds Open University in Tubas, had been invited to the University of Sussex to meet with students and speak about conditions for students living under occupation in the West Bank.

    However, the UK consulate refused his visa application on the grounds that he is an ex-prisoner.

  • Torture at Al Hamra checkpoint
    Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 20:00

    At 5pm on 14th February the Israeli army closed Al Hamra checkpoint, arested two Palestinian men, forced them to strip, blindfolded them, then made them walk down the road in front of queues of people and stand in stress positions.

  • Jordan Valley news: health clinics, schools and renovated houses
    Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 21:02

    Now that Jordan Valley Solidarity has become solidly established amongst the local Palestinian community, and recognised by many international NGO's, it is challenging Israel's attempts to intimidate and remove the Palestinians on a daily basis.

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