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Search Results for: house demolitions
Occupation tourism: hiding the ugly truth
…ler population of under 150 people. Like most other settlements in the Jordan Valley, it relies on agriculture for economic activity. When Corporate Watch visited in January, we found one Agrexco branded and one other packing house operated by the settlement, and we have previously reported on interviews with Palestinian settlement workers working the Vered Yeriho fields. Jericho Inn guest house located in the settlement Vered Yeriho in the occup… Continue reading
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Tagged Dead Sea, Jordan Valley, Tourism, Vered Yeriho
Kept in administrative detention for being a ‘man of influence’
…udies. He was first arrested in 2003, when he spent four years in prison, and again in 2011, when he spent two six month periods in administrative detention. The first time Tariq was arrested in 2003, the Israelis came to his house when he was alone. They entered the house, put a blindfold on him and took him away to an interrogation facility next to Ofer, a military prison located on occupied territory in the West Bank. British-Danish company G4… Continue reading
“You don’t look for justice in a military court”
…alit, an Israeli soldier captured in Gaza). Corporate Watch asked him to tell us what it is like being held in Israeli custody. No justice in a military courts On 31 August 2001, when Salah was only 16, soldiers came to his house looking for him in the middle of the night, accusing him of fly-posting martyr posters (posters of people killed by Israeli forces) around the city. After being taken to the Russian compound interrogation facility (als… Continue reading
“It only takes one phone call for us to get you here. We can take you anytime”: Arrested for using Facebook
…ed, international companies such as Samsung, Canon and Motorola provide equipment used in Israeli prisons while G4S signed a contract in 2007 to provide services to all prisons within the Israeli Prison ‘Service’. House invasion and arrest Ghada was arrested on 26 March 2012. The soldiers came to her house in Ramallah at 1.30am. Her parents woke up because of a noise and found them inside the house, they didn’t knock on the door… Continue reading
“I cannot remember how many times I have been arrested”: A decade in Israeli prisons
…sed through the Gilad Shalit deal [A deal where 280 Palestinian prisoners were exchanged for the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured in Gaza]. TA: Can you tell me about your arrest? Abed: I was arrested at my house in Tubas, the Israeli military had surrounded the town. They came to the house at 2.30am and exploded the doors, held my family in one room then they made other people from Tubas enter my room before them to check ther… Continue reading
Guerrilla research exposes sponsors of Israeli apartheid
…Gaza, and was recognized by the Israeli government as the first new settlement in the Jordan Valley for a decade in 2009. Al-Maleh, the Bedouin community next to Maskiot, faces increased settler harassment and frequent house demolitions as its existence on the land is threatened by settlement expansion. Christian Friends currently has 13 projects planned in settlements in the Jordan Valley, as well as in settlements such as Kfar Adumim and Susiy… Continue reading
‘Charity’ and Ethnic Cleansing: Christian Friends of Israeli Communities
…ettlement in Gaza. CFOIC had donated a field of olive trees to the settlement. Since 2010 the Bedouin communities in Al Maleh, next to Maskiot, have suffered constant harassment by the Maskiot settlers and faced numerous home demolitions and threats by the Israeli Occupation Forces as Israel are tightening their grip on the land. Armed settlers from the illegal settlement of Maskiot setting up a tent on Palestinian land. Visiting the area again i… Continue reading
Cargoflora Ltd: Distributor for Agrexco, goes into administration
Corporate Watch has received documents showing that Cargoflora Ltd has gone into administration. The documents state that “Their company is no longer operating and their affairs are being handled by an administrator”. The company is also listed as “in liquidation” on the Companies House database. The company had been the target of direct action by campaigners calling for a boycott of Israeli agricultural companies. For… Continue reading
Photo blog: ‘Organic’ Carmel Agrexco crops grown in the settlement of Kalia
…al Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Formerly state owned, Agrexco has been privately purchased by Bickel Flowers and, according to Who Profits?, has regained a significant proportion of its former market. A packing house bearing Agrexco signage, which was packaging goods for Agrexco’s ECOFRESH brand in 2010, was operating nearby but was packaging goods for export by other agricultural companies instead of Agrexco, indicating that… Continue reading
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