[IMC-UK-Features] feature proposal - Brighton-tubas delegation to palestine

[thewallmustfall at riseup.net]

A delegation of seven people from Brighton arrived in the Tubas region of
occupied Palestine last week. The delegation is part of the project by the
Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. The group's aims are to
highlight Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in the region, raise
awareness about life under occupation and create practical solidarity
links between grassroots organisations in Brighton and Tubas region.

The group has spent time visiting communities in the occupied Jordan
Valley, part of which is in the Tubas region, who are faced with threats
of house demolitions, whose agricultural economy is strangled by Israeli
travel restrictions and dominated by Israeli state run monopoly companies.
Many Palestinians in the Jordan valley live in tents and shacks because
Israeli building restrictions prevent any new building by Palestinians.

Many Palestinian communities are beiing pushed out of the Jordan valley
entirely, like the residents of Al Hadidya who have had their homes
demolished by the army four times in the last year. Other communities,
like the villagers of Fasayil and Al Jifflik, provide a cheap workforce
for settler companies like Carmel Agrexco who make a fortune exporting
produce plundered from the valley to the UK and the rest of Europe.

Reports from the Delegation in Palestine: <a
href="https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/04/396346.html">
Teaching King Lear in Occupied Palestine </a>|<a
href="https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/04/396433.html">
The Breadbasket of Palestine </a>| <a
href="https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/04/396434.html">
Resourcefulness and Tenacity </a>| <a
href="https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/04/396435.html">
Jordan Valley 2008 </a>|<a
href="https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/04/396436.html">
Smashed To Pieces and Bled Dry </a>|<a
href="https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/04/396437.html">
Day 5 </a>|

Press Releases from the Brighton-Tubas Solidarity Group: <a
href="https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/04/396344.html">
Education and Resistance in Occupied Palestine </a>|<a
href="https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/04/396345.html">
Palestinian Village Denied Water and Threatened with Demolition </a>|

Links: <a href="www.brightonalestine.org/blog> Brighton-Tubas Blog </a>|
<a href="tubas.brightonpalestine.org"> Brighton-Tubas Friendship and
Solidarity Group </a>| <a href="www.palestinecampaign.org"> Palestine
Solidarity Campaign </a>| <a href="www.palsolidairty.org"> International
Solidarity Movement in Palestine </a>| <a href="www.bigcampaign.org">
Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign </a>|<a href="www.stopthewall.org"> Stop
the Wall in Palestine</a>|