On Feb 16 we held an online meeting ‘Masafer Yatta: Reports from the Frontline’.

The meeting was a powerful examination of the incremental ethnic cleansing of the rural Palestinian communities in the south Hebron hills. It featured conversations with Basel al-Adraa, a local activist and journalist, and Joan Neary, recently returned to the UK after a 3-month posting to Masafer Yatta as an international observer.

You can now watch the full meeting by clicking this link to our YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/hNLUJ0hnWHg

Many thanks to a couple of our members who have put together this short video, reviewing BHPSC’s activities in 2022. Many thanks to our hundreds of members and supporters for your continuing support.

CLICK HERE TO LINK TO THE VIDEO

We were honoured to host this meeting, which drew attention to the plight of Mohammed El Halabi. 

Mohammed has been imprisoned by Israel for more than 5 years, without trial.

Mohammed worked for international aid organisation World Vision in Gaza. He was arrested in July 2016 by Israel. The charges could not have been more serious: transferring 7.2 million dollars a year from World Vision, an American charity, to Hamas. This despite the fact that World Vision’s total budget over this time in Gaza was a fraction of this amount, and even though two audits concluded that no money was missing. Why? Almost certainly in an attempt to discredit NGOs and aid agencies working in Palestine, by trying to link them to allegedly terrorist groups.

We were especially honoured to welcome Mohammed’s father Khalil, as well as journalist Asa Winstanley and author Andrew Feinstein.

You can view the recording on our YouTube channel.

We always try to use a proportion of our income, from membership subscriptions and donations from the public, to make donations to groups and projects in Palestine that are part of the resistance. It goes without saying that the need for support in recent weeks has been intense. 

If you wish to add further to our funds for such donations, you can do this via the Donations page on this website

Donation of £500 to Medical Aid for Palestinians
Many of you will be aware of MAP’s work, and you may support their activities yourselves. We responded to their emergency appeal with a donation of £500, on behalf of our members. You can find out more about the appeal, and about MAP’s work, here.

Donation of £500 to IMET2000
IMET2000’s work is perhaps less well known, but achieves extraordinary things in Gaza. You may have heard IMET2000’s founder, Prof Colin Green, speak in Brighton a few years ago. Colin wrote to us personally to thank us for the donation (again, made on behalf of our members) to say that the £500 donation would cover the cost of one of several oxygen concentrators/generators being shipped to Gaza a few days later. More about IMET2000’s work here.

15 May 2021

As a matter of urgency, we call on all our supporters to sign this petition, calling on the UK government to impose sanctions (including an arms embargo) on the Israeli regime. 

The petition was launched on the 14th of May. It reached 100,000 signatures without 24 hours, and has already picked up over a quarter of a million signatures. But it is still essential for as many people as possible to sign – let’s reach half a million quickly! When it reached 100,000 there was an expectation that it will be debated in Parliament, but we must apply pressure on our MPs to ensure this happens without delay.

The ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and the relentless assault on Gaza, are only possible with the complicity of the international community. That’s why we must act, now!

Click on the link below to be taken to the petition. Thank you.

Introduce sanctions against Israel