Demolished Hope

Featured

By the Yanoun team. 

This is not an earthquake, it’s an apartment demolished at night by the Israeli military. Note the demolition markings in spray paint on the remaining walls.

1.02.05.16.demolitionareaA.EAPPi_B.Hellstrom

02.05.16. Nablus, home demolition in Area A. Photo EAPPI/B. Hellstrom

Continue reading

‘Where do I go now’? Questions asked in the wake of demolitions

Featured

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 hours later, most of the village, including the internationally funded school, was left in ruins.

Continue reading

‘Nowhere else to go’: Bedouin homes demolished in Ein ar Rashash

Featured

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 FORCED DISPLACEMENT OF 112 RESIDENTS. TODAY WE REPORT ON DEMOLITIONS AND THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL’S  DISCRIMINATORY PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION POLICIES IN AREA C.  

Continue reading