House demolition in A-Tur, East Jerusalem, June 2009. A Day after the municipality of Jerusalem announced it'd stop demolishing homes in East Jerusalem, Abu-Jumaa's house in A-Tur was demolished (Photo: Activestills)

Municipality of Jerusalem issues demolition orders to displace 19 Palestinian residents

Inspectors of Jerusalem municipality on Monday handed a demolition warrant to a Palestinian family notifying them that two residential buildings are scheduled to be demolished, potentially displacing 19 people. According to Ma’an Palestinian News Agency, the Siyam family where told that the buildings in Silwan neighborhood would be demolished “because they were constructed without the…

In Israel and abroad: Protests against Prawer Plan

This Saturday, November 30, Arab-Palestinians in Israel and Left activists will rally against plans for the ethnic cleansing of the Naqab/Negev, at Houra and Haifa in an internationally-observed “Day of Rage.” There are planned demonstrations across Israel and Palestine as well as in cities around the world, in a show of global solidarity against Israel’s…

15 IMCWP: Contribution of the Communist Party of Israel

Contribution of the Communist Party of Israel, to the15th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties held in Lisbon, Portugal on 8-10 November 2013.   Dear Comrades and friends,   The CPI salutes you all – communist and workers’ parties of the world, and convey revolutionary greetings to all the delegates that participate in this…

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…

Demonstrator at the Anti-Prawer rally in Tel Aviv, September 2013 (Photo: Activestills)

Two years since Prawer Plan

by Dr. Thabet Abu Rass September 2013 marks two years since the Israeli government approved the Prawer Plan. The plan intends to uproot tens of thousands of Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel from their villages, to demolish their homes, and to confiscate an overwhelming majority of their lands. The government proposed this plan as a…

Jerusalem Municipality plans garbage dump on Palestinian villages

Adalah submitted an objection, in cooperation with the Civic Coalition for Defending the Palestinians’ Rights in Jerusalem (CCDPRJ), on behalf of the ‘Anata Municipality to the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee against a plan to construct a landfill in East Jerusalem, on lands belonging to the Palestinian villages of ‘Anata (Population: 20,000) and Al-‘Issawiyya…

Hadash: Government Approves Racist, Anti-Bedouin Program

Israel’s government on Sunday approved the recommendations of Minister without portfolio Benny Begin to “change the program regulating Bedouin settlements in the Negev”. The reform is aimed at solving definitively the issue of Bedouin ownership claims on Negev lands and according to Hadash it’s a “provocative and racist anti-Bedouin program – the Prawer Plan” September…