The Egyptian police have arrested seven people who were protesting demolition of their homes in the strategic Nile island of Warraq The Egyptian authorities have earmarked more than 2,000 homes in Warraq Island for demolition [ More … ]
The European Union (EU) on Thursday called on Israel to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied territories EU Spokesperson Peter Santo announced in a statement: “This week, Israeli forces demolished more than 70 [ More … ]
Widow of ‘Martyr’ Mohamed Adel Balboulah, from El-Basarta village, Damietta, has commented on the Egyptian military regime’s recent demolition of their house. She published a post on her Facebook page, addressing her martyred husband, saying, [ More … ]
Israel’s Channel 2 news released a video on its website showing new training practices of Israeli forces in which soldiers trained under the conditions of a simulated demolition of a Palestinian home and clashes that [ More … ]
UN officials visited the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem on Wednesday, which is under threat of forcible relocation by Israeli authorities who delivered demolition notices [ More … ]
Thousands rallied in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday evening in protest of home demolitions targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel, with demonstrators calling the Israeli state’s demolition campaign “racist” and an act of [ More … ]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly advanced plans for 68 housing units in the illegal settlement of Ofra in the occupied West Bank in order to house Israeli settlers residing in nine homes slated [ More … ]
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets Saturday in the town of Arara in northern Israel, in the wake of a demolition campaign in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran on Wednesday, when Israeli police [ More … ]
The Joint List, which represents parties led by Palestinian citizens of Israel in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, accused Israeli police of spreading misinformation to Israeli media regarding an alleged vehicle attack Wednesday morning in the [ More … ]
Two people were killed and several others were hospitalized Wednesday after a predawn demolition raid into the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev region erupted into clashes, as Israeli forces used sponge-tipped bullets, [ More … ]
Days after al-Arish residents threatened a civil disobedience to protest the extrajudicial Killing of youths by the Egyptian security forces, news were circulated on the social media about the disappearance of three police officers. The [ More … ]
The Israeli army demolished 12 Palestinian homes overnight in Qalandiya town, north of Occupied Jerusalem Under the escort of Israeli forces, bulldozers entered the village, at the pretext of their location near the segregation wall. [ More … ]
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