Making Them Safe

CAMPAIGN:    I Care About PEACE, I Care About AL AQABA

URGENCY:
· 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.

ACTION:  Please email a letter to
your Senators and Representative, then call the senior staff for foreign policy at your senators and representatives offices in Washington DC regarding new demolition orders in Al Aqaba village and throughout Area C.   You can find the email addresses and phone numbers at www.House.gov (enter your zip code) and www.Senate.gov (enter your state).  Click on the template letter below download and personalize it, and email or fax it to your Senators and Representative.   If you want to develop a close relationship with their senior staffer for foreign policy, please download our powerpoint presentation How to Call Congress.

Template Letter to Congress * Brochure * How to Call Congress
History of Al Aqaba * Make a Pinwheel for Peace
(for background, please see our rebuilding project: Kindergarten of Al Aqaba and its Village)
More Resources:

The Israeli Human Rights group, BIMKOM: Planners for Planning Rights, has published a study entitled, The Prohibited Zone: Israeli planning policy in the Palestinian villages in Area C explaining the problem in detail. Peace Now reports that 94% of Palestinian requests for building permits are denied by the Civil Administration. The Guardian in their April 15, 2008 article, “Area C strikes fear into the heart of Palestinians as homes are destroyed” reported  that the Israeli Civil Administration granted Palestinians only 91 of 1,517 building applications, while during the same period 18,472 housing units were sanctioned and built in Jewish-only settlements. Rabbi Arik Ascherman and Rabbis for Human Rights is eloquently describing the flashpoint is likely from eviction of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem — and Israeli families moving in by court order. The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights is reporting, 150 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem awaits imminent demolition

Sign the ICAHD petition, End Demolitions Now!