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Over the last year we have terminated a cycle of network building in Africaand have dedicated time also to strengthening ties with Latin America. International institutions among us have worked with the BNC to strengthen, rebuild and expand our relations with movements in Africa. We have built connections with movements in over a dozen African… Read more: Crosscutting international outreach efforts

We are working together with the most affected communities to build collective initiatives that a) develop the economy of ‘sumud’ (steadfastness) of the communities. b) defend Palestinian lands. c) help communities to become more resilient in order to resist displacement. In each community the ‘model of resistance and sumud’ may look different and is developed… Read more: Models of Sumoud

On February 10, 2022, 14 young activists from the Jordan Valley and the South Hebron Hills launched the #StopWaterApartheid Campaign. The #StopWaterApartheid Campaign is two-fold: 1) Actions on the ground to materially support and initiate alternatives to the man-made scarcity of water in Area ‘C’. 2) An advocacy initiative to call on governments across the… Read more: The #StopWaterApartheid campaign

In response to the destruction of the al-Maleh school, we released SaveOurSchools action alert calling on people across the world to urge their governments to pressure the Israeli occupation to return the confiscated materials back to the school. In the action alert we also call for the protection of five other schools from Israeli imminent… Read more: SaveOurSchools Campaign

During the Unity Uprising, which broke out in the Spring and spread across Historic Palestine, some youth activists joined the daily protests that took place at checkpoints, in the streets and the mountains of Palestine.During the uprising, we protested not only Israeli intentions to expel hundreds of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and… Read more: Supporting Palestinian youth

Not by chance, Israel over the years has developed a systematic and planned policy that denies Palestinians the right to education. In the occupied West Bank this manifests itself mainly through the demolition of schools, assaults on schools and the harassment of school children at checkpoints as well asthe detention of children. Israel weaponizes the… Read more: The Right to Education Campaign

Background:Many organizations and institutions are working to support communities fighting against their destruction. We also work to understand the long-term plans and strategies of Israeli aggressions against communities in order to develop effective responses.In Beita, for example, Palestinians started demonstrating weeks before the Unity Uprising erupted and protests still continue to take place against an… Read more: The #EndEthnicCleansing campaign

In response to Israel’s escalated violence and ethnic cleansing of Palestiniansin Al-Naqab and Sheikh Jarrah in particular, some institutions, jointly with grassroots groups in Al-Naqab, Jerusalem and beyond led an emergency action that brought together both, Palestinian groups in Jerusalem and international organizations. One of the most important and powerful elements of the mobilization was… Read more: Building the #EndEthnicCleansing network

The #SaveJerusalem Campaign was a grassroots led and internationally spread initiative to defend the right of thousands of Palestinians in Jerusalem to stay in their homes. Launched in July, 2021, the campaign was a direct response to Israeli intensified ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in SheikhJarrah, Silwan and Jerusalem at large.The campaign, which was endorsed by… Read more: SaveJerusalem Campaign

Palestinian steadfastness and Israel’s hilltop strategy to isolate and annex the Jordan Valley. All across their homeland, Palestinians wake up every day to wrestle with Israeli apparatuses of violence and apartheid to stop their imminent ethnic cleansing. This report investigates Israel’s hilltop strategy aimed at isolating and annexing the Jordan Valley and sounds the alarm… Read more: MakeNoise for Beita, Beit Dajan and Khirbet Humsa

Although it was demolished several times during 2020/1, the residents of Humsa showed unprecedented steadfastness in the face of Israeli bulldozers and military jeeps. The more resistance the community showed, the more violence Israeli forces committed. The most malicious of these violent practices was the demolition of the residents’ tents, confiscation of water tanks, food… Read more: SaveHumsa as the precursor of End Ethnic Cleansing

On the ground: Some institutions among us have joined the grassroots efforts to restore Masafer Yatta caves. We have restored 10 caves during the year 2022, and we will continue to restore caves during 2023. Currently, the mass forcible expulsion of the eight threatened villages in Masafer Yatta is taking place gradually. Israel is destroying… Read more: Renovating caves for families in Masafer Yatta

Following the assault on the Palestinian farmer and human rights defender Hafez Huraini, the #EndEthnicCleansing network launched an international call to free Hafez Huraini, the campaign included advocacy with the representative offices in the OPT as well as a social media campaign to pressure the Israeli authorities to release him. Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights… Read more: The #FreeHafezHuraini Campaign

The planting of trees in the face of Israel’s continued policies of uprooting of trees and the efforts to support the communities that suffer the most from violent attacks by illegal Israeli settlers during the olive harvest, are a fundamental – concrete and symbolic – form of steadfastness, movement building and struggle for land. The… Read more: You Are Not Alone and Tree Planting campaign

Khallet ad-Dabe’, Masafer Yatta; a village with over 90 residents which is at the brink of being ethnically cleansed at any time after the Israeli Supreme Court set September 29 as the date the demolition of Khallet Ad- Daba’. On May 4, the Israeli High Court ruled in favor of the ethnic cleansing of some… Read more: The campaign to Defend Khallet ad-Dabe’

This short documentary called The People Masafer Yatta depicts the tragedy and resistance of the Palestinian people of Masafer Yatta. This film highlights the ongoing ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinians in this region since the Nakba of 1948. We can gain a fuller understanding of the daily hardships endured by Palestinians throughout this documentary,… Read more: The people of Masafer Yatta