Israeli Civil Administration set to demolish a clinic and 11 homes near Hebron

Israeli Civil Administration set to demolish a clinic and 11 homes near Hebron, in the Beqa'a Valley, this week: 10 February 2008

HEBRON Palestinian residents of the Beqa'a Valley are in danger of losing twenty homes and their health clinic. The clinic is currently under construction. The Israeli Civil Administration issued orders to the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) to demolish the homes and clinic by the end of the week. Residents in the valley have been building this clinic without<Al-hilal@sky.com> governmental or outside funding, even though many have little or no paid employment. The Israeli Civil Administration refused to grant a building permit despite the difficulties residents encounter in reaching other health facilities outside of the valley.

 
Between 600 and 700 people, mostly women and children, will use the new clinic for routine medical care, including prenatal checkups and vaccinations. Palestinian Relief and CARE International currently provide these services one day a week in other existing facilities. The residents decided to build their own clinic as the facilities they are now using are inadequate. Some patients are currently receiving care in part of one resident's home.

(To view pictures of Beqa'a Valley residents using an existing home as a clinic, visit http://www.cpt.org/gallery/ album233 <http://www.cpt.org/gallery/album233>. )

Twenty other buildings also have demolition orders. Six of these are homes that the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) rebuilt after previous demolitions.. Atta Jaber, a resident of the Beqa'a Valley, told CPTers (members of Christian Peacemaker Teams), "We want the world to know that with our new clinic that has the demolition order, if there was an automobile accident on the Bypass Route 60, and Israelis were injured and could not get to a hospital, we would give them medical treatment right here in this Palestinian clinic. Tell the world." Israeli authorities demolished Jaber's home in the Beqa'a Valley three times."

**ACTION

Please write to the Israeli Defense Forces. Urge them to rescind the demolition orders and allow residents to complete the clinic in the Beqa'a Valley.

Send appeal electronically: http://dover. idf.il/IDF/ English/Contact+
Us/ <http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/Contact+Us/> In addition, please call, email or write to your government officials. Urge them to send a strong message to the Israeli government to rescind the stop work orders and allow residents to complete the clinic in the Beqa'a Valley.

APJP hold a protest outside Leviev, in Bond Street, London

"Twenty-five demonstrators from  Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, together with support from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the Wall and Jews for Justice for Palestinians held a Valentine's Day protest outside Leviev, the jewellery shop in normally sedate Old Bond Street London on Saturday afternoon 9 Feb, holding impressive placards, and leafleting to curious passers by, who wished to know more about why we were there.

The posters highlighted Leviev's illegal settlement construction in Bil'in and Jayous, backed by the violence of uprooting olive trees and armed soldiers against Palestinian farmers.

We sang chants borrowed from Adalah New York like "You're Glitz, You're Glam, You're stealing Palestinian land" and "Buy from Lev for Valentine and help erase more Palestine."

This protest was co-ordinated with Adalah New York who were also demonstrating outside Leviev's shop there.

A clear signal was sent to Leviev, to inform passers-by about Leviev's activities behind the glitzy façade of his shop, in this exclusive section of Bond Street."
 

You can see the demo on this youtube link by Frank Barat who was at the demo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrEb4DxBzIk

Abe HayeemAPJP, London

Letter-writing campaign on behalf of Bedouin rights

Recognition Forum
including:
Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality
www.dukium.org
The Association of Forty
www.assoc40.org

You are in a village whose houses have been demolished many times, and see the people seeking shelter for themselves, and there is nothing you can do about it. You think of the State which, apart from repeatedly demolishing their humble houses, doesn`t do a single thing for these people. You visit another village and see the same state there. You visit yet another village, where all houses have recently received demolition orders from the State. In their despair, the residents of these villages cling to anyone willing to help, but these people are desperately few.

Through political legislation, the State of Israel has made the lives of the Bedouins in the Negev a true hell. It created a reality in which the conflict between law and morals is unbearable. The State refers to its citizens, the Bedouins, as to human herds that can be transferred at will. And who are they to object? And all this since for their misfortune, they were born Bedouins in the State of the Jews. In Israel, the worse racism is practiced by the government.

Click the URL below to see how you can help...

http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24549 

Palestinian Primary School in Fasayil to be demolished on the 29th of November!

On the Thursday, the 17th of October the Israeli Occupation Forces issued a demolition order for Fasayil's primary school and yet another Palestinian family's home in the village. Construction work requires a permit from the Occupation authorities but since the occupation of the West Bank in 1967 not one has been granted. The systematic ban on destruction is clearly aiming at driving out Palestinians of the Jordan Valley.

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Action on Bil'in: Report on Modi'in Illit Settlement

Documents reveal W. Bank settlement Modi'in Illit built illegally

Illegal permits were issued for a new West Bank project while buildings were being constructed or even completed, according to documents Haaretz has obtained.  The project is the Modi'in Illit settlement neighborhood of Matityahu East, which is being built on land belonging to the Palestinian village of Bil'in.  An eyewitness reported that the illicit construction is proceeding, despite recent instructions from the settlement's planning and construction committee to stop the work.

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