Residents of Khirbet Makhul next to their demolished homes. September 16, 2013

Friday: Solidarity visit to Khirbet Makhoul

In the early morning of Monday 16 September, the occupation army invaded the Palestinian Khirbet Makhoul village with three bulldozers and demolished almost the entire village. Attempts by the Red Cross and humanitarian organizations to bring in equipment and tents were thwarted by the army, which threw stun grenades. Consular representatives were shamefully thrown out…

A Palestinian activist argues with an Israeli soldier after he prevented a Palestinian family and their supporters to harvest 5 olive trees in the West bank village of Kafr Qalil near a spring confiscated by the settlers of Har Bracha. October 23, 2012

Ahead of olive harvest – Settlers chop down trees near Nablus

Settlers chopped down more than 100 olive trees Saturday morning in Deir Sharaf village south of Nablus, a Palestinian official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an Palestinian news agency that settlers from Shave Shomron settlement stormed olive fields in the al-Ghazan neighborhood of Deir Sharaf and destroyed…

Workers meeting in front of Kamada, March 2013 (Photo: Histadrut)

Kamada workers walk off production lines

Workers at the Israeli biopharma company Kamada walked off the production line on Wednesday afternoon. Kamada, which has made lists of the promising companies in Israel, manufactures at the Beit Kama intersection in the Negev. Dozens of employees walked off the production lines after management refused to sign a collective employment agreement. The company has…

The occupation army against MK Barakeh, Bil'in 2005 (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Film footage shown at trial confirms that MK Barakeh is innocent

The Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court held last Wednesday (October 2) an evidentiary hearing in the criminal trial of Communist Member of Knesset (MK) Mohammed Barakeh, head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash/Jabha). During the hearing, the court heard two witnesses for the defense. The witnesses gave their testimonies regarding charges made against…

CPI: A letter in solidarity with the Sudanese CP and people

We, at the Communist Party of Israel, have been following with great concern and fury the ongoing repression and wrongdoings by Albashir’s government in Sudan: from the outrageous price increases which only exacerbate the dire situation of the Sudanese people, already burned out by extreme poverty; through the mass repression and detentions of opposition leaders…