Today (April 5) Palestinians prepare for a second Friday of mass demonstrations in what Palestinians are calling the “Great March of Return”. A total of 22 Palestinians have died on Gaza’s border since the protests were launched – 17 were shot by Israeli soldiers on Friday, two others killed in shelling, and two more have died… [Read More]
Your help is urgently needed – 300 Palestinians threatened with immediate expulsion in the Jordan Valley
Your help is urgently needed. Israel has announced its intention to carry out mass demolitions to the homes of 300 Palestinians in the Al Maleh area of the Jordan Valley, and to force the residents to leave the area. This is a humanitarian crisis, as well as a political one. On a humanitarian level, all… [Read More]
Demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem: Wadi al Joz and Al Sawaneh area
Two of our members have just returned from Palestine, where they met Nureddin Amro in East Jerusalem and learned of the next phase in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities in the city. A shortened version of this article was published by the Morning Star on 16th July 2016 at https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-e34e-Ethnic-cleansing-in-all-but-name# Nureddin Amro, his brother… [Read More]
Photo report by one of our members currently in Palestine
Israeli Army disperse peaceful Palestinian prayer demonstration See Kayla’s photo report here.
Another eyewitness report from one of our members currently in Palestine
STORIES FROM PALESTINE AL AQSA MOSQUE Every day the Jerusalem team of EAs walk through the Old City to ensure that all is quiet and that there is access to the mosque. EAs often enter the Al Aqsa mosque compound, which, despite the tensions of occupation, seems a serene and lovely place. Standing… [Read More]
Another eyewitness account from Palestine
This is the first bulletin from ‘S’, one of our local members, who is participating in a programme with Quaker Peace and Social Witness as an ecumenical accompanier serving on the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). PALESTINIAN STORIES No 1, February 2015 On Saturday we drove out to… [Read More]
An eyewitness bulletin from one of our members currently in the occupied Palestinian West Bank
It was once said (I can’t remember by whom) that when you come to Palestine you can write a book, but when you leave you can hardly write a sentence. One must be forgiven, at times, for occasionally experiencing a sense of normality when living in Area A. The overwhelming hospitality, really cool Arabic music… [Read More]
‘Life in Occupied Palestine’ – Eyewitness report from a Brighton activist
Read Michaela’s moving account of her experiences of witnessing life in occupied Palestine earlier this year, published in Lacuna Magazine.
Ecostream closure announced around the world
A selection of sites reporting the closure of Sodastream’s ‘Ecostream’ store in Brighton: Brighton & Hove Independent Brighton Argus Palestine Solidarity Campaign (UK) The Electronic Intifada Ha’aretz Jewish Chronicle RT (Russia Today) Middle East Monitor International Middle East Media Centre Oumma.com (NB “Les Militants de Brighton”)
Israel struggling against growing boycott campaign
Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has released a report revealing that the Foreign Ministry has acknowledged its inability to face the growing boycott campaign despite resorting to all political and judicial means, which have been ineffective, especially against private companies. The report explained that the ministry has succeeded in putting pressure on some European governments to… [Read More]