Hundreds of Sudanese asylum seekers marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and marched from Tel-Aviv to Ramat-Gan (Photo: Activestills)

Sudanese Refugees Protest Gender Violence in Darfur

On Tuesday, November 25, hundreds of Sudanese asylum seekers marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women by demonstrating in Tel-Aviv against the European Union’s lack of action towards Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. This protest comes in the wake of the mass rape of hundreds of women and girls in Darfur by al-Bashir’s…

A protest against SodaStream outside of John Lewis in London, organized by local Palestine Solidarity activists (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Major Israeli Construction Enterprise and SodaStream Pull Out of Occupied Palestinian Territories

Last Monday, the Israeli daily newpaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Africa Israel Investments, an international holding and investment company based in Israel, will no longer build homes in the West Bank or East Jerusalem. This decision comes after years during which Africa Israel’s daughter company, Danya Cebus, repeatedly flaunted international law by constructing settlement homes…

Khalida Jarrar, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, shows an internal expulsion order by Israeli occupation soldiers who invaded her Ramallah home at on August 20, 2014 ordering her expelled from Ramallah to Jericho within 24 hours, in the city of Ramallah, August 27, 2014 (Photo: Activestills)

Palestinian MP Jarrar resists expulsion

At 1.30 A.M on 20 August 2014 approximately 50 Israeli occupying soldiers surrounded Khalida Jarrar’s home in Ramallah. An Israeli captain then proceed to hand Jarrar an order which states that she must not leave the district of Jericho for the next six months and can only leave with the express permission of the Israeli…

Peace demonstrators arrived on November 2006 to a military camp, between the Carni and Erez crossings, near Gaza Strip, serving as a parking lot for some 100 armored personal carriers (APC), tanks and Caterpillar's D9 armored bulldozers. While some activists climbed on the D9 bulldozers to occupy them, others displayed dummies soaked in blood and photos of Palestinian victims on and around the armored vehicles (Photo: Al Ittihad)

New report: Heavy engineering machine and the Israeli occupation

Who Profits Research Center published a new report: “Facts on the Ground: Heavy Engineering Machinery and the Israeli Occupation,” which describes in depth how construction machinery became a vital component of the occupation mechanism Since the early days of the 1967 occupation, Israel has used heavy construction machinery in order to strengthen its hold over the Palestinian territories…

Palestinian women sit among the ruins of the Al-Nada towers after they were destroyed by Israeli strikes in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2014. The towers had 90 flats. So far, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,870 Palestinians, and injured 9,470 since the beginning of the Israeli offensive (Photo: Activestills)

The Long Road to Gaza

Practically everywhere around the globe, it is not possible to read the newspapers or watch the news without witnessing – either briefly or at great detail – the human tragedy in Gaza. The unjust war launched by the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, has resulted in vast destruction in one of the most densely populated…