CAMPAIGN: What Happened to Abir?
Good News! On Feb. 9th 2010, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued their conditional decision in favor of the Aramin Family. read more
Our Rebuilding Alliance commitment to rebuild war-torn communities includes the requirement to make them safe. When we set out to make our playground building projects in memory of Abir, we thought long and hard about how to achieve this goal. Yesh Din attorney Michael Sfard summed it up best when he said, “If you do nothing, human rights violations do not go away; instead they get worse.”
We hope to see the day when soldiers stay far away from schools and schoolyards. With this in mind, the Rebuilding Alliance brought the Aramin family, including Abir’s sister Areen, who was an eye-witness to the incident, and Israeli Combatant for Peace Yonatan Shapira, to the State Department to testify. As a result, an entry about Abir Aramin was included in the 2007, 2008, and now the 2009 U.S. Human Rights Report on Israel and the Occupied Territories updated with each passing year. We believe the Israeli courts are the right place to seek justice.
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CAMPAIGN: I Care About PEACE, I Care About AL AQABA
URGENCY:
· On Mar. 10 and Mar. 5, 2010, over 300 Israeli Army soldiers surrounded the homes in Al Aqaba village and entered the kindergarten, mosque, and medical clinic. They left without further incident.
· On Nov. 24, 2009, the Israeli Army stormed Al Aqaba village to issue new orders threatening 7 more families with the forced evacuation of their homes, animal shelters,and demolition of their new road.
· Then we learned that since August 2009 the Israeli Army has ordered demolition of 50 entire Palestinian neighborhoods, ten to fifty homes each.
