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EA Poem: “The sound of an early morning in Susiya”
by Leif Magne Helgesen, Summer team, 10.07.15. South Hebron Hills, Susiya, Palestinian farmer watering his olive trees at dawn, Photo EAPPI / P. Mercer The morning is full of sound dogs barking...
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Video: ‘The Struggle to Save Susiya’
This video looks back on the summer months and gives a brief insight into ‘the struggle to save Susiya‘. It features interviews with Nasser Nawaja, a local peace activist and resident of Susiya....
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E1: The End of the Dream for a Palestinian State?
by Jerusalem Team. The Israeli authorities plan to expand the settlement Ma’ale Adumim and connect it to Jerusalem was approved by the Israeli government 1999. The plan, commonly referred to as the E1...
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Home sweet home in firing zone 918
by the South Hebron Hills team. It is six o’clock in the morning, and day is about to break over the valley below. In the distance, the foothills of the Negev emerge above the mist. All is quiet and...
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A “Stop Work Order” for a Completed House: A Kafkaesque Story
By the Jordan Valley team, 12.10.15. Jordan Valley, Humsa. Mahmod with the stop work orders issued to him by the Israeli authorities. Photo EAPPI/J. Puukki This is Mahmod. He lives in a herding...
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Old City, old story: a case for eviction in Jerusalem?
by the Jerusalem team, Nora Sub Laban was born in 1956 and has lived in her home in the heart of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City all her life. Her family has lived in this house, since 1953. Now,...
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Al Hadidya: bulldozers razed this hamlet
By the Jordan Valley team, This blog shares the recent history of a small Bedouin Hamlet, Al Hadidya, in the northern Jordan Valley. The majority of the Jordan Valley is in Area C, and the Israeli...
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Displacement: a daily reality in East Jerusalem
by Nancy and Malin from the Jerusalem team, Moving to a new place may sound exotic… unless one is forced to move. We have had the opportunity to visit several families who have experienced or are...
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Our top 10 posts from 2015
Happy New Year to all! We want to say thank you to all our followers for reading our blogs and to all our Ecumenical Accompaniers for their eyewitness stories. We are encouraged by your interest and...
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“The sky will be my blanket and the earth my bed”; what Bedouins’ face
by EA Alex, Yanoun team. “I have nowhere else to go. says Ali Z, 39 year old father and resident of Ein Ar Rashash “If my home is demolished the sky will be my blanket and the earth my bed. I must...
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‘Nowhere else to go’: Bedouin homes demolished in Ein ar Rashash
Two weeks ago we wrote about the THREAT OF IMMINENT DEMOLITION FACING THE BEDOUIN COMMUNITY LIVING IN EIN AR RASHASH IN SOUTH NABLUS and called for international support and advocacy to prevent the...
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‘Where do I go now’? Questions asked in the wake of demolitions
By the Yanoun team. March 2nd, 2016: At 6:30 in the morning, fifteen Israeli soldiers and three bulldozers entered THE VILLAGE OF KHIRBET TANA in the east of Palestine. When they left two and a half...
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Punitive residency revocation: a new tool for forcible transfer
by EA Anna, Jerusalem team. The Palestinians of East Jerusalem have something called a permanent residency status, [1] granted by Israel after the illegal annexation [2] of East Jerusalem in 1967. More...
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Stop work orders in Susiya; the first step towards demolitions
By the South Hebron Hills team. On the 10th of May 2016, the Israeli army’s Civil Administration District Coordination Office, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, issued four stop work orders on tents in...
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The opening of Hebron’s Closed Military Zone: Fact or Fiction?
By EAs Emily, Daniel and Per, Hebron Team, The Hebron EAPPI team sat around an open fire with a group of 30 Palestinians and international human rights workers eating warm kanafe. We huddled under...
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This is the face of the occupation
By EA Johanna, Jerusalem team. When we arrive at Areef Tootanji’s house in Wad al-Joz, at 5 in the morning the bulldozers are still tearing through his house. Areef is beside himself shouting at the...
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South Susiya: before and after the demolition
by EA Siphiwe, South Hebron Hills team. Three weeks ago, EAs visited a village called Wadi J’Hesh which is also know as south Susiya, in the Hebron governorate. This village is located between the...
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“Susiya, it’s finished!”
By the South Hebron Hills team. Before us about 20 tents mostly made out of black or white tarpaulin sheets are nestled into the rugged landscape. The only sounds that can be heard are the faint sound...
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The Rubber Tyre School fears demolition
By the Yanoun team. We have all heard about what is going on in Susiya lately. Demolitions, demolitions and demolitions. But we have not heard from Khan al Ahmar. In Khan Al Ahmar, a small mixed...
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Bedouins: the human face of the two-state solution
By EAs Emily and Johanna, “We didn’t have time to pack everything; lots of our things were destroyed that day in front of my eyes…along with the house”. Maryam, a bright young bedouin woman,...
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